DeletedUser27062
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I was just trying to help, no need to try and get all AJ on me. But if you insist:
For something to be a colloquialism more people than just you have to use it that way.
In gaming parlance "to Nerf" has a very specific usage and yours was totally wrong.
In fact in any context "To Nerf" never means to throw away as you claimed.
No matter how far I scroll I can't find a single instance on google where your usage fits, not urban dictionary, not anyware after 10 pages of results. Likewise, on these forums (which you may have noticed I read quite a bit) I have never seen this usage anywhere, ever. It is certainly not a common colloquialism as you claim.
Regardless, it's not about being a grammar nazi, it's about confusion. More than a few times I've had to explain what Nerf means to older people/newer gamers on these forums, and for you to arbitrarily change the meaning to "Nerf means to throw something" is utterly confusing and unhelpful as well as just odd.
I tried to politely point out that I was using nerf in a different context and you broke out the grammar hammer. I responded. You could have said hey, it's confusing for others when you use that word in a different way but instead you assumed you knew best and proceeded to 'check' me.
Just because it's not on the net doesn't mean it's not real or not used as I said. If I referred to a superheater would you know what I was talking about? No because it's a colloquialism that only has (had) meaning here. When I was a kid everyone knew what a superheater was but as technology changed so did our lexicon. When I say I nerfed something here people know what I mean. The fact that you don't isn't my problem.