Vocabulary evolution

[scarfman]

lyssie complains that things she wrote in an unfinished 2006 BSG fanfiction story keep happening onscreen this year. "seriously, this is not being Jossed, this is being, I d'no, Ronned, or something equally silly". I commented,

Actually given the Willow/Tara thing this could be called jossed too, just like cleave means both to press together and to cut apart, or just like flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. Except it happened with Kira/Odo before it happened with Willow/Tara. Ron was on DS9 then wunnee? I guess we do have to call it ronned.

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Wow, and I thought gamer jargon was opaque to the outside world...

[billfl.livejournal.com]

So what would be your applied definition of "bermanned"? I have my own, but I'm curious to hear what you might come up with.

[scarfman]

berman, v.t., to revive and reenvision a successful franchise as a critical or popular failure. Jerry Bruckheimer bermanned the Arthurian legends.