why are people putting the letter "k" in front of words?

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k-explain this trend

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

k-no.

― Allyzay, Monday, 10 November 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

its k-metric you psycho hose beast.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

old usenet silliness

― TOMBOT, Monday, 10 November 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Amateurist seems to like it. Which I've only noticed because he doesn't otherwise use a lot of ILX slang.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno!

― k-jel -- (jel), Monday, 10 November 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

k-jel sounds kinda dirty

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 10 November 2003 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

cuz it's k-r4d, d00d.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a french phonetic spelling for "que" which translates mostly to "which" but is also used much like anglos use "like" and it is invading the english language, because the french are EVIL.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Not your best work, Huckleberry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

it's somewhat based in truth...so maybe that's what ruins it

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It's short for kilo, putting an emphasis (1000x) on the following word. Just like mega does.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

that's lame, and probably true.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"whoa, that's K-rific"
"no, that's MEGA-rific (M-riffic)"

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

metric system is for queers

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

horace mann otm

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, scientists are queer

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

of course, one has to wonder with the USA, a self-styled democratic republic, uses the Imperial system?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

k-weer.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought the 'k' was short for '-kin', the abbreviation of 'fucking' - as in k-good. I have a dirty mind, obv. Bad C J.

― C J (C J), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

measurements in general are for pansies

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

CJ's theory sounds better

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a nested-abbreviation too far to work, sadly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

SCIENTIFIC NOTATION FO EVA!

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Monday, 10 November 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I just feel like saying I find "k-whatever" like the most objectionable slang in the entire universe. I don't know why, maybe cos it seems like it'd make every word ever sound so ugly if you tried to say it.

― Allyzay, Monday, 10 November 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Why are you asking me if I have a thousand whys?"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I just think it's abusing and overusing the good letter K, and frankly, that's k-wrong.

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a way of making up for the disgraceful neglect of those cheese eating surrender monkeys the French, who never use the letter K ever. And quite right too - they'd probably try and put it up Saddam Hussein's bottom or something.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm, actually, since not too many words start with the letter K, maybe this is some sort of atonement for that. i'm sure K doesn't mind the extra attention..

― Vic (Vic), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

We must strive to replace the letter "k" with "Dan Perry" in the future

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 10 November 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Perry-classic!

― L(E^24) (Leee), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but 'Dan Perry-lame' is no good.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan Perry-rub is kind of wrong.

― L(E^24) (Leee), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

or Dan Perry-rowr

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 10 November 2003 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's actually a throwback to the old days of bulletin boards.

More information: http://textfiles.planetmirror.com/bbs/krad-usenet.txt

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 10 November 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

we are still undecided on Dan Perry-winkle

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Monday, 10 November 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Also http://www.textfiles.com/ has some really interesting reading.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 10 November 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's short for kilo, putting an emphasis (1000x) on the following word. Just like mega does.

or is it short for "kind of"?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 10 November 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I would it depends on the tone of voice for that.

"that hawaiian pizza was k-tasty" or
"Whoa, T3 was k-rad; to the max"
"that was so k-lame"

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 November 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

earth to EVERYONE -- prefixing is good, okay?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 November 2003 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Not as good as interfuckinfixing.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Hrmmm, I thought it was Kilo- as in Kilobyte, and that it was so old skool it dated back to before the days when computers all ran on Mega-wotsits. So to be really up to date, you should say Mg-Rub instead of K-rub. But K just sounds better, cause, it's like the perfect letter and all that, la...

(BTW, USA != a democracy, it's a Republic. Nigel Spivey said so, it must be true. Hence why they use the Imperial measurements, because since Roman Times, Republic is another word for "Empire" you have been warned, S.P.Q.R.)

― Citizen Kate (kate), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

well, I was always pretty sure that k just meant very. K-cool = very cool. Basically. Kinda like A Nairn's explanation I guess.

― notamember, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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