To Ogg?

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Whle looking for softward to compress my 'learn Swedish' CDs for training runs, I came across this neift term that could easily find its way into o' use...

Ogg

An 'Ogg' is a tactical maneuver from the network game 'Netrek' that has entered common usage in a wider sense. From the definition:

3. To do anything forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. "I guess I'd better go ogg the problem set that's due tomorrow." "Whoops! I looked down at the map for a sec and almost ogged that oncoming car."

Would this be like 'ogging' through the green?

-- Fritz (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), December 28, 2002

Answers

To ogg: "To do anything forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources" - that's what I've been doing at the Possum Trot every year - to O' without consideration of the drain on future (energy) resources...

-- mean gene (gmw@ku.edu), December 29, 2002.

The real question is : is it to "ogg" pronounced a) ah-gg b) oh-gg or c) uh-gg?

And am I ogging now, wasting time asking this question? :)

-- Mary (maprunner@juno.com), December 30, 2002.


Here is a more complete definition

ogg /og/ v. [CMU] 1. In the multi-player space combat game Netrek, to execute kamikaze attacks against enemy ships which are carrying armies or occupying strategic positions. Named during a game in which one of the players repeatedly used the tactic while playing Orion ship G, showing up in the player list as "Og". This trick has been roundly denounced by those who would return to the good old days when the tactic of dogfighting was dominant, but as Sun Tzu wrote, "What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy, not his tactics." However, the traditional answer to the newbie question "What does ogg mean?" is just "Pick up some armies and I'll show you." 2. In other games, to forcefully attack an opponent with the expectation that the resources expended will be renewed faster than the opponent will be able to regain his previous advantage. Taken more seriously as a tactic since it has gained a simple name. 3. To do anything forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. "I guess I'd better go ogg the problem set that's due tomorrow." "Whoops! I looked down at the map for a sec and almost ogged that oncoming car."

What I'm not sure of is whether it is a transitive or intransitive verb. That is, does it take a direct object? Does one simply og? Or can one og something? But I do think Gene has the spirit of it!

-- Fritz (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), December 30, 2002.


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