FREEPERISMS

[Julius Civitatus]

Freeperism - (etim: from Free Republic, and Greek suffix "-ismos" that forms abstract noun)

Def: An incorrect typing of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaning, as practiced by right-wing activists like members of Free Republic and other assorted wingnuts. The Freeperism is not commonly intended for comic purposes, but it often has an unintended comedic effect in more educated readers. Freeperisms usually denote a low intellect and a lack of curiosity for matters of grammar, spelling, or any debate etiquette. Freeperisms often are the result of typing in a distressed and furious state, with festering anger usually aimed at liberals, media figures, minorities, or any other perceived enemies, real or imagined. Anger and bitter resentment are common elements feeding the author of the Freeperism.

Examples:

This is HUGH! - (This is huge!)

It doesn't make SINCE - (It doesn't make sense)

He SHOULD OF done it - (He should have done it)

MORAN - (Moron)

YOUR a commie! - (You're a commie)

I hate YOU'RE liberal lifestyle - (I hate your liberal lifestyle)

I don't like to HERE the truth - (I don't like to hear the truth)

I hate THERE ideas - (I hate their ideas)

Often, Freeperisms involve the specific misspelling of a name with the misguided intention of making it sound threatening, alien, or bizarre. Even though this version of the Freeperism has a comedic aim, it usually fails miserably.

Examples:

Klinton,

Klintoon,

Demoncrats

DemoncRATS

HITLERy Klinton

LIEberals

Freeperisms are common and varied. Please post your examples of Freeperisms, present and past.

[KingFlorez]

1. Ha Ha

That is so good

[Deep13]

2. Thoes goofy freapers,..

their at it agan!

[bryant69]

3. I will note that people typing fast because their dander is up

happens on liberal boards as well.

Bryant
Check it out -> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[stepnw1f]

8. Thanks for Keeping it Fair and "Square"

:eyes:

[bryant69]

28. Your welcome

I do try to keep things as square as possible.

[kiraboo]

54. haha! "Your welcome". There's another one!

[BOSSHOG]

13. I sometimes wonder!

I try to edit and proofread my posts before I hit the send button and an occasional typo slips in but are the mistakes on free republic posts mistakes or just a lack of knowledge of the language and spelling?

[stepnw1f]

32. No, No No...

we are as illiterate as the Freeps. See... they are nervous and rush when the post here at DU....:eyes:

[BOSSHOG]

36. Oh I Sea!! Thanx

[bryant69]

41. Not only are some of us as illiterate as freeps

Some of us feel comfortable taking on their other characteristics as well.

Bryant

[stepnw1f]

46. Oh Believe You Me... I Know, I know

[bryant69]

49. I suppose if we clarified what we meant by qualities we might have

in common with freepers, we would get in trouble with the moderators.

So perhaps it's better if we don't.

Still it does seem a bit cowardly to hold one's tongue in the face of moderators.

[stepnw1f]

51. It Is Better If We Don't

but damn it's fun....

[bryant69]

56. It would be fun

I've noted for example, that many here at DU seem to possess a similar narrowness of mind, compared to people in Freeperland. People who step outside the narrow confines of their beliefs are to be vilified. Stepping outside of the narrow confines of acceptable belief, well that's something a secret enemy would do.

There's also a self-dramatizing paranoia which seems to animate both discussions, on occasion. I get the feeling that many people here and there are staring in their own little movies. Here it tends to be movies on the French Resistance or the Weather Underground; there it tends to be Red Dawn (the film about a soviet invasion of the US and the poor teenage kids who run into the hills and fight a guerrilla war).

And of course general mean-spiritedness seems to animate some people on both sides of the fence. Probably more over there than here, but there's plenty of it here too.

Of course you needn't assume that any of these descriptions matches any specific resident here at DU.

Bryant

[stepnw1f]

57. I Don't Agree That It's the Same

To some degree, sure, but not the "same".

[bryant69]

58. Vanilla or Chocolate, it's still ice-cream.

I obviously agree with the policies over here, or I would be over there (unless, of course, I'm a secret freeper).

Is Democratic Underground more congenial? Yeah, so long as you are on the same page as everybody else. If you aren't, it's a much less pleasent place to be. There's a lesson there I suppose.

Bryant

[stepnw1f]

60. It's Natural for Disagreement

I still don't see how you could compare the two sites... they are NOT the same. I have to disagree from experience.

[bryant69]

62. I have experience with both as well

Frankly possibly more hardcore - as I posted on an Ann Coulter Fanboard for several months (the highlight of which was when a fellow poster wished me enjoyment at my next NAMBLA meeting. I left shortly thereafter).

DU is better in many regards, in part because Democrats are more interested in creating a community. That said, a certain number of people who post on political boards are going to be assholes who want to feel powerful by slamming into people who disagree with them. Does Freeperland have a larger share of this type? Yeah. Do plenty of them come here? Yeah. Assholery is not confined to one political philosophy.

Of course DU has the benefit of being largely right on the issues (at least in my opinion).

Bryant

[stepnw1f]

65. Generally, DU Works for Inclusivity

Sometimes memebrs get angry, but for the most part you can make amends and still fight on the same side. And we do....

[Julius Civitatus]

21. There's a difference between typos and consistent errors

They sure use some of the examples above all the time. That's not just a typing error, but a pattern of behavior.

[stepnw1f]

4. Didn't You Know?

The GOP outsourced their support to a foreign country where they have slaves posting nonsense on the internet(s). These freepers probably aren't even American citizens.

[SpecialK]

Anyways, it's definately Clinton's fault!

ANYWAYS IS NOT A WORD, PEOPLE.

AND

DEFINITELY = FINITE!!

[DUHandle]

5. Ultralib

[wryter2000]

6. ARE YOU SERIES?!!?1

And don't forget "morels," as in "LIBS HAVE NO MORELS."

[DUHandle]

7. Hippe pinko

[stepnw1f]

9. You Think You Can Come Up With Another One?

[DUHandle]

16. O.K., O.K.

no originality here.



























































smelly hippies

[stepnw1f]

22. uh huh...

yup... what I thought.

[SoCalDem]

42. In Freeperese, that would be smelly "HIPPY'S" not hippies

:)

[DUHandle]

71. I’ll still leave the h in marihuana

I don’t spend enough time on the RW sites to have all of the nuances down but I think I can offer this, even though it isn’t in Freeperese.

During a school board election in a near community, one candidate (put prayer in schools, secular humanism is the work of the devil, phonetics only, blah, blah, blah) claimed that the Superintendent used a method of Mind Control developed by the Soviet Communists called the Delphi Method.

Couldn’t be more wrong, here is the Wiki entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method

The RW candidate also damned the district for not using the Manila Method to teach Math and the Sciences. Here’s a Wiki entry on that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_Science_High_School

The Manila Method was a hot topic on local RW Talk radio for a while and true to form, overlooked the facts that MM is in use.

Oddly enough, high scores in Math and Science we also overlooked.

[TexasLawyer]

10. JC-- This is SO good

Please go straight to UrbanDictionary.com and make "freeperisms" a recognized word.

Seriously.

[kittenpants]

11. Don't be such a looser!!!!111/

your just a libtard, duh

[Julius Civitatus]

15. Quick question

What is the "111/"??? I've seen Freepoids posting that.
What am I missing?

[kittenpants]

23. I think it's supposed to be multiple exclamation points

in order to emphasize their rage/demonstrate the validity of their points, but their primitive hands betray them and they end up just mashing the keyboard in fury resulting in !!!1111/.

[BOSSHOG]

12. I have to add this

Use sensuous in a sentence:

Sensuous up, get me a beer.

[Career Prole]

14. "Coup de tau". I can't even remember the context now,

but one of 'em proudly posted "coup de tau" instead of coup d'etat which struck me as immensely amusing as I tried envisioning the freeper typing it over and over to see which version "looked right" and somehow inexplicably settling on that one.

[SpecialK]

20. Great visual! LOL! Thanks!! n/t

[Career Prole]

52. All the while he wondered if the French have a word for that.

Hey! Welcome to DU, you! :hi:

[wryter2000]

76. Well,

We know the French have no word for entrepreneur.

[Julius Civitatus]

24. They are phonetically creative

:rofl:

[spindrifter]

35. The tau signifies ithe link to a fraternal organization .

[azurnoir]

43. So is the Coup de tau where the

Chickenhawks go at night?

[spindrifter]

69. Yes, they go to share

poultry jokes in a club-like atmosphere.

[lpbk2713]

17. I think you have found a key reason why the RNC ran 41 & 43 for prez.

Bush is only four letters and it's difficult for people with limited mental capacity to spell wrong.

[SoCalDem]

45. Wrong-O

[lpbk2713]

48. Nope .... I didn't say impossible, I said difficult.

As your pic shows, they remain consistent in their ability to remain predictable.

[Career Prole]

50. BWAHAHAHA!!

Excellent pic!!!!111
:rofl:

[MissB]

59. And this is yet another example of why I will always be a Democrat.

We have a much better sense of humor. :toast:

[windy252]

68. ....

:spray:

[wryter2000]

77. Oh, my gawd

Is that pitcher reel? :rofl:

[CJCRANE]

18. IBTZ.

In Before The Zot.

{I think that's correct}.

[madinmaryland]

19. Irregardless, they have no morels!!1!!

[Rocknrule]

25. You forgot the most obvious one

Nookyular

Hey idiots, if you can't pronounce it, don't use it!

[RandomKoolzip]

26. This line is full of typos:

with festering anger usually aimed to liberals, media figures, minorities, or any other preceived enemies, real or imagined...

1. "At," not "to."

2. "Perceived" is the correct spelling.

3. "Perceived" takes care of the "real or imagined." Those last three words are gratuitous.

If you're going to make fun of somebody for mangling the English language, make sure you're not doing the same thing. Parodies work best when accurate.

[Julius Civitatus]

27. I didn't run the spell-checker. It's usually good help.

Thanks for pointing that out. We all make typos. We can all make mistakes. What they do is a pattern of behavior. Freeperisms not always involve unintentional typos, as I posted above.

[Richardo]

61. ...also, I wouldn't make sport of 'Klintoon', 'Hitlery', 'Demonrats', etc

When this site is full of juvenile crap like 'Bushitler', 'Bu$h', 'Limpballs', 'Repukes', etc.

[treestar]

64. I don't mind those - they're sort of clever, or funny, by either

side.

[RandomKoolzip]

67. It's the legacy of the Yippies, I think....

We like to blame Gingrich and the "Class of '94" for the "lowering of the discourse" in recent times, but they were just responding to how wonderfully colloquial (read: vulgar) the Left became in the 60's in the only way they knew how: with reactionary stupidity.

From either side, it's pretty childish.

[beachmom]

29. DUmmies -- that's what they call us

And some guy gives a report on the goings on at DU every week. Not to put us all down here, but the fact that these guys feel the need to report on a Democratic website every week shows they have WAY too much time on their hands. Why don't they put their thinking caps on to get us out of Iraq? Oh wait . . . not sure they really quite have brains. They're like the Collective Borg. We are the Freepers. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Once they're in there, no free thinking is allowed, except as the poster speaks of. Thinking of the latest spelling for a new insult.

[Speck Tater]

30. I hate to break it to you, but I've seen as many DU-isms here...

... as freeperisms there.

It's epidemic all over the Internet, whether in the red zone, the blue zone, or the white zone. Especially annoying is the use of that horrifying non-word "alot", as in "I have alot of respect for abunch of people who have posted apost here." By all rights those same people who think "a lot" is spelled "alot" probably think "an apple" is written "anapple" and "a Democrat" is written "Ademocrat". I just don't get it. Didn't these folks go to school?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

31. ...

[Sal Minella]

33. And there speach is just as dismall.

[Kurovski]

34. "Rediculous" is a new one that emerged the other day.

The "red state" version of "ridiculous", one supposes.

[azurnoir]

39. That one has uses

[Warpy]

37. You forgot the most important one

"looser" substituted for "loser," thus taking any possible sting out of the insult issued by a Freeptard to on of his intellectual superiors (like a toaster).

[CJCRANE]

38. Where's that famous photo..?

you know the one...the freeper poster-boy with his placard...someone's gotta post it...

[Julius Civitatus]

40. This one?

[CJCRANE]

44. Got it in one!

:thumbsup: :)

[SoCalDem]

47. Here's my new fave

[myrna minx]

53. Paul Pot is the craziest one I've seen. Come on, Paul Pot?

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

66. Paul Pot..He's Mary Juana's cousin, isn't he?

[Momgonepostal]

70. Paul Pot was a bad Dick Tater nt

[myrna minx]

73. Dick Tater Tot.

:rofl:

[WoodrowFan]

72. he was a follower of Joe N. Lie.

the famous Chinese revolutionary..

[myrna minx]

74. LOL!

:spray:

[Kailassa]

55. A freeper online got upset, saying Libs had no rite to say

his grate cuntry was loosing the war. He'd herd Faux reporter's disgusting it, and they all say Americas whining.

[treestar]

63. Prolly - as in the libs prolly believe it

[leftofthedial]

75. "series" for "serious"

[geniph]

78. Misuses of toe, reign, and lose all drive me nuts

"tow the line" ... um, guys, it's "toe the line" as in put your toes on the line, not pull it.

"holding the reigns of power" or "during his rein" - both wrong. "holding the REINS" as in a horse's reins, and "during his REIGN" as in the last 5 years of Emperor Cokespoon's REIGN.

and the #1 drive-me-nuts misuse in all the world - "we're going to loose in 2008 if we don't change our position on <name your issue>." No, that would be "lose." To loose is to set free.

All those misuses make me automatically think "freeper idjit."

/end copy editor rant mode

[Julius Civitatus]

79. "Tow the line" drives me nuts too...

Good catch!