Exyooper
Registered Collector
Registered: 04-2009
Posts: 772
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
quote:
Spikosauropod wrote:
I've been going in a different direction.
A devotee of Star Trek is typically called a Trekie. Many prefer to be called Trekers. I have heard that a devotee of Farscape is called a Scaper. It appears evident that a devotee of TLR has been and must always be called a Collector—as in, "A dozen Collectors were observed in line waving their scissors and other objects in the air. The police vacillated over confiscating the more dangerous implements."
quote:
Exyooper wrote:
If a fan of Star Trek is a Treker and a fan of Farscape is a Scaper, then wouldn't a fan of The Lost Room be a Roomer?
It looks like we aren't the only ones looking into naming the fans of The Lost Room
Red 5 Comics brought up the concept also.
quote:
(Are ‘Lost Room’ fans called ‘Roomies’? ‘Losties’? We’d better look into this!)
For the record, my entry was a joke, well actually a pun to be exact.
a homophonic pun utilizes the exploitation of word pairs which sound alike, but are not synonymous
rumor - something that is thought to be true but isn't
---
|
|
8/3/2010, 10:11 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Exyooper
Send PM to Exyooper
|
Spikosauropod
The Prophet & Moderator
Registered: 06-2007
Posts: 5959
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
quote:
Red 5 Comics brought up the concept also.
quote:
(Are ‘Lost Room’ fans called ‘Roomies’? ‘Losties’? We’d better look into this!)
I dealt with that in a hurry. Got to get my candidate out front!
Last edited by Spikosauropod, 8/4/2010, 8:39 pm
|
|
8/4/2010, 8:29 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Spikosauropod
Send PM to Spikosauropod
|
markanthonyramsay
Registered Collector
Registered: 01-2009
Location: Halifax, NS. Canada
Posts: 444
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
i;m still for collectors, but roomies would be 2nd
If your a fan of Warehouse 13, what would we be called?
---
|
|
8/4/2010, 8:52 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to markanthonyramsay
Send PM to markanthonyramsay
MSN
|
Chucklbunny
Founder & Administrator
Registered: 06-2007
Location: Room 10 at The Sunshine Motel
Posts: 3049
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
quote:
MarkAnthonyRamsay wrote:
.......If your a fan of Warehouse 13, what would we be called?
an intellectual terrorist ?.......lol !
Chuckles 
---
Chucklbunny - OA, RMC
The Founder of The Collectors
|
|
8/5/2010, 7:21 am
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Chucklbunny
Send PM to Chucklbunny
Blog
|
Cattrina
Registered Collector
Registered: 11-2008
Location: Finland
Posts: 1450
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
Yes this is really a puzzle... as a "collector" is not a descriptive noun itself... like when someone on the news talks about "trekkies" everyone instantly knows the word means star trek fan. But if someone casually talks about "collectors" or "roomies" the reference is not obvious.
That is why we need to invent better nickname for us fans.
Here some ideas from me:
Roomatic (Room & fanatic)
Objector (Object & suffix for doer)
TLRer (obviously difficult to pronounce)
Collecter ( a new word, slightly different from the usual, also a french version for a collector)
|
|
8/5/2010, 12:29 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Cattrina
Send PM to Cattrina
|
Jintosh
Registered Collector
Registered: 06-2009
Posts: 1581
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
a "Miller" ?
--- Jintosh, The KeyMaster, OA, RMC
Prop Replicas at http://www.TheLostRoom.org |
|
8/5/2010, 12:41 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Jintosh
Send PM to Jintosh
|
Cattrina
Registered Collector
Registered: 11-2008
Location: Finland
Posts: 1450
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
quote:
Jintosh wrote:
a "Miller" ?
That is problematic too, as miller is already estabished noun
"trekker" is good that way, it did not mean anything before it became what it is
Last edited by Cattrina, 8/5/2010, 12:46 pm
|
|
8/5/2010, 12:44 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Cattrina
Send PM to Cattrina
|
Cattrina
Registered Collector
Registered: 11-2008
Location: Finland
Posts: 1450
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
Cabalist might work... but it has bad connotations.... it resembles too much the word "cultist"
Perhaps "roomer" is our only option, mostly every other word goes too far from the show name *scratches head*
|
|
8/5/2010, 12:51 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Cattrina
Send PM to Cattrina
|
Jintosh
Registered Collector
Registered: 06-2009
Posts: 1581
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
it's been done, or else
The Key Bearers
would have been cool.
--- Jintosh, The KeyMaster, OA, RMC
Prop Replicas at http://www.TheLostRoom.org |
|
8/5/2010, 2:21 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Jintosh
Send PM to Jintosh
|
Spikosauropod
The Prophet & Moderator
Registered: 06-2007
Posts: 5959
|
|
Reply | Quote
|
|
Re: THE LOST ROOM comic book "Season Two" coming 2011 from Red 5
The name does not need to be self-evident to non initiates. For example, fans of Harry Potter are called “Muggles”.
I am still pushing for “Collectors”.
|
|
8/5/2010, 5:05 pm
|
Link to this post
Send Email to Spikosauropod
Send PM to Spikosauropod
|
