Bit of an Odd Question...

[MidnightIris]

Alright, this is going to sound a bit nutty, but I need a bit of help with my english homework, lol! The assignment is to write a conversation using "jargon and slang" from any area/culture. A few examples being internet slang, southern slang and valley girl speak. I, being the snake obsessed dork that I am, decided to use "herper" slang. We need a dictionary of at least 20 terms to go along with the project. I already have a few, like "het", "1.1", "amel", "aner", "hypo", etc. Can anybody give me a few others along with their meanings? And maybe even a suggestion for a setting and a plot? (I was going to have the two people at a reptile expo, one about to buy a snake and the other trying to sell it.)

Once again, sorry for the oddness, but I just want this to be good! Thanks!

[rattekonigin]

emmie=emerald tree boa, ammie=amazon tree boa, popping=the sexing technique, herp=slang derived from "herpetology"? That's all I can think of right now...
"herper" in itself is a slang term, being short for "herpetoculturist"

[asphyxia]

Hey there,

I am not "up" on the slang but hou could also have a chat roon setting for the conversation?

[Pythonian]

I don't know if you meant "1.1" to be one male one female. If you did. I wouldn't consider that slang. It's just a way we get a point across. like "$5.67" would be slang for 5 dollars and sixty seven cents. or "4x4" four by four.

Mike

envenomation, interbreeding, feeders, constriction, iridescense(sp?), saddles, substrate, musking, aboreal, dinural, morph, phenotype, RI, IBD, locale, motley, hurricane, jungle, clean, homo, maybe a couple will work lol

[XxRachxX]

i suppose if you can use abbreviations ive gathered a list of some from the boards.....gets confusing!!
BCC = Boa Constrictor Constrictor
BCI = Boa Constrictor Imperator
BCA = Boa Constrictor Amarali
BCO = Boa Constrictor Occidentalis
BRB = Brazilian Rainbow Boa
CRT = Colombian Redtail
RTB = Redtail Boa
CRB = Colombian Rainbow Boa
ETB = Emerald Tree Boa
ATB = Amazon Tree Boa
GTP = Green Tree Python
BP = Ball Python
JCP = Jungle Carpet Python
IJCP = Irian Jaya Carpet Python
CBB = Captive Bred and Born
CB = tricky one, can mean either Captive Bred or Captive BORN
CH = Captive Hatched
WC = Wild Caught
LTC = Long Term Captive
ERS = Emerald Regurgitation Syndrome
UTH = Undertank heater
DH = Double Heterozygous

[Edwin]

Has it been probed? (Has it been sexed)
Admission is $4 for neonates (Admission costs $4 for the kiddies)
Is that snake a cross? (Is it a hybrid snake?)
Is that a Tremper albino? (Is that leopard gecko descended from Ron Tremper's line of albinos?)
Look, that snake just gave me a 'strawberry' (That snake just flicked its tongue at me)
I need to go on a crix run (Drat, I am out of crickets and need to go buy some more)
I need Black Knight (I need some mite spray, not that horrible, horrible movie)
Stop the car, there's a dead raccoon on the road (Look, free food for the burm)

Something else I recently experienced is going to a health food store and trying to buy small amounts of different stuff to gut-load insects. Just watch their expressions change when you tell them that you want powdered bee pollen and sea kelp for MEALWORMS. lol

[Alicewave]

Mealies-Meal Worms
Waxies-Waxworms
Silkies-Silkworms
Crix-Crickets
Juvie-Juvinile
Hatchling-Just hatched
Tagged-getting bit

That's all I can think of ATM.

[Edwin]

One more to add:

snake years: # of snakes * # of years you have had them

[Pixie]

brumation, egg binding, substrate, feeders (pinkies, fuzzies, hoppers), f/t frozen/thawed, p/k prekilled, noctural, husbandry...

That's all I can think of for now that I haven't seen written

[Pythonian]

brained : self explanatory

[MidnightIris]

Thank you all for your help! I'm writing the paper now, and I'll tell you how the grading goes, if I ever get it back...(this teacher forgets to give papers back from tme to time...)

[Nanashi04]

best of luck!

[Dino]

Food terms

Pinkies
hoppers
fuzzies

etc....