×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
Add BL to the lexicon




Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Bugs & Technical Questions
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Wolverine Princess



Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 1100
PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:11 pm Reply with quote
Could you guys add BL/Boys' Love to the lexicon? It's just easier to refer to all gay-boy-stories-written-by-women-for-women anime and manga with an umbrella word then to label it by how sexually explicate it is with yaoi and shounen ai, and I'd like to see this word come into common use with anime fans. (Not I'm asking for those other two terms to be removed, though.)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
one3rd



Joined: 28 Jul 2003
Posts: 1819
Location: アメリカ
PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:16 pm Reply with quote
animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php

Click the link. Scroll down. See the part where it says, "Would you like to suggest a word to add in the lexicon?" Type the word that you'd like to suggest in the adjacent field. Click "This!"
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
Wolverine Princess



Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 1100
PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:26 pm Reply with quote
Quote:
animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php

Click the link. Scroll down. See the part where it says, "Would you like to suggest a word to add in the lexicon?" Type the word that you'd like to suggest in the adjacent field. Click "This!"


Thanks, I guess I just never noticed that. Anime smile + sweatdrop
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Dargonxtc



Joined: 13 Apr 2006
Posts: 4463
Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋
PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:51 pm Reply with quote
Don't hold your breath on it being added anytime soon, it has been forever since any new updates.

I don't know about it being added either. In the real world(outside the comic art world) it means an explicit sexual relationship between a man and a boy(under 16).<---Doesn't yaoi cover that.

Because of its dual meanings I think it would just add confusion. I know I have had to double-take when it has been used on here. Or have I been wrong?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website My Anime My Manga
abunai
Old Regular


Joined: 05 Mar 2004
Posts: 5463
Location: 露命
PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:55 am Reply with quote
Dargonxtc wrote:
Don't hold your breath on it being added anytime soon, it has been forever since any new updates.

Quite true, but since I love to disprove such offhand statements, I have just this minute finished adding a new word (osananajimi) to the Lexicon.

I've also spent some time going through the myriad suggestions that have been made, looking for worthwhile ones, and deleting the useless ones. For instance, I regret to inform you that whoever suggested that we add "fuckbitchassniggerfaggotbisexualgaylesbian" to the Lexicon is in for a disappointment. Wink

We work on the Lexicon when we have the time and inclination, and that goes for the Encyclopedia, too -- remember, the Encyclopedia staff is a group of select volunteers.

Meanwhile, I don't really think BL is likely to get a separate entry, though it will obviously need to be mentioned when/if we do a fuller, more in-depth lexical writeup on the entire shounen-ai / shoujo-ai / yuri / yaoi conceptual complex.

- abunai
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website My Anime My Manga
Dargonxtc



Joined: 13 Apr 2006
Posts: 4463
Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋
PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:17 pm Reply with quote
abunai wrote:
Quite true, but since I love to disprove such offhand statements
Since your in good mood(adding words and all), can you add Kawaii. It shouldn't take much time, and is pretty common.

Quote:
We work on the Lexicon when we have the time and inclination, and that goes for the Encyclopedia, too -- remember, the Encyclopedia staff is a group of select volunteers.
I agree the encyclopedia should come first, and you guys do a great job. After all it is the meat and bones of this site(no where else is there one better, least in English). The lexicon is just sort of nice to have. But when you put the greatness of the ANN Encyclopedia next to the meager ANN Lexicon, it leaves one wanting. But again like I said, its just something nice to have.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website My Anime My Manga
abunai
Old Regular


Joined: 05 Mar 2004
Posts: 5463
Location: 露命
PostPosted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:05 pm Reply with quote
Dargonxtc wrote:
abunai wrote:
Quite true, but since I love to disprove such offhand statements
Since your in good mood(adding words and all), can you add Kawaii. It shouldn't take much time, and is pretty common.

You twisted my arm, you nasty man. Done.

- abunai
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website My Anime My Manga
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Bugs & Technical Questions All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Page 1 of 1

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group