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Imagine coming to the book community with English being your second language. I was CONFUSED. I just googled everything haha I remember not knowing what tbr, dnf and otp meant. There were even some expressions/slang that people use in their reviews and I just needed Google to tell me what that person said hahaha
about your question: for me, since english is my second language, all those bookish terms were not that confusing since basically any other new word was just as confusing. The only difference was that for things like DNF there is no translation to be found in dictionaries, but i simply found out all of the meanings through context clues, just the way i do it with most new words i stumble about
English is like my third language so when I was young I didn’t read any English books read the translation ones but when I joined the book community I was pretty good with English so I could easily understand terms like tbr,dnf,otp without any help back in the day it didn’t matter cuz I read alone and talked to no one about it 😂😂😂😂😂
I started perusal booktubes two years ago and I was faced by all these new definitions like TBR, DNF, book hauls, pet peeves, MC, and I’m sure there are others still but those are the ones I remember now.. I used to search the words every time I see a article using these words and get back until I kept all the meanings 😂 This always makes me laugh 😂
When I first started getting into books it was 2020 (so not that long ago!). And when I started hearing these terms on booktube I picked up on most of them, like: otp, ship, wrap up and book tropes. But some of them I was a bit confused by, especially with English being my third language. For example: TBR, DNF, arc and words like “dystopian” or “high fantasy”. But I watched a article from this booktuber back then (I think she was called Murphy Napier, but I might be completely off lol) explaining bookish terms and abbreviations and I wrote them down. Even now sometimes I hear someone talking about books using words I don’t recognise, but I think I got most of them down hahaha
I remember when I first found booktube, I think a lot of it was self-explanatory or made sense within the context when people were talking, but it was when people would reduce book titles to the first letters. Some of them I understood after a second, others I sat there for ages trying to work it out and a few will forever remain a mystery!
when i first got into the book community, the first thing i heard about was ships and was i confused! otps, dnfs, pnrs, mcs, povs, rtcs…abbreviations over abbreviations and i didnt even know what ngl meant! (i am not old, just not well informed). in such a dire situation, i turned to the one reliable thing that would open a world of knowledge to me…The internet! i learned every meaning with examples and started randomly saying it to non reading friends to inflate my own ego and i started understanding tweets and comments made by the reading ones. it was not fast and it seems like there is a new term everyday but it makes me feel part of the community to know them, like a secret language or code. anyways, this is my pov to this question, hope i made my comment before the question dnfed itself. 🙂
I vividly remember learning what DNF is by perusal your DNF zone article years ago. The rest was pretty easy to learn as far as I remember, Pinterest and google were my teachers at times. English is my second language, but “haul” and “unhaul” is also used by youtubers in my native language (Hungarian).
Another Entertaining article from Jesse. ! You make my day better. Especially when I’m sick. SOME of these definitions!!! Oh MY. GOD. And yeah!! It was very confusing for me at first!!! TBR, DNF and various other things. But it got clearer by time. Also? Have you heard about the Shadow and Bone show? I know it’s late…. But THEY ANNOUNCED THE CASTING !!!! You should try out the show Jesse. It has done the book justice and it has characters from six of crows and We MAY get a spinoff series for Six of Crows this Season!!! Definitely check it out Jesse!! Have a nice day!!💖❤️ Keep up the good work. The comment got very long. I think I got carried away. Sorry about that
I’m pretty good with word games and context clues, so I don’t remember many of the bookish acronyms being hard. TBR and DNF were pretty obvious. I think it was helpful to see a definition of the term “ship”, because while I had the gist of what it meant, I didn’t instinctively know why they were calling it that.
For me I knew terms like TBR and book haul and things like that or at least I caught on to them quickly… but DNF and ARC took me so long to understand what that meant because a lot of times when people say those they don’t say what that means in the same breath. I remember being so confused until I learned
I got into the book tube community about 4 or five years ago, actually with one of your articles. I remember having no idea what dnf or tbr meant when I first started but as I watched more and more articles( from you and booktubers), I just kinda used context clues and figured it out for myself. ( What i meant was I looked the terms up on Urban Dictionary:) )
After perusal BookTube for so many years I sometimes find myself talking about a book with a non-bookish human and occasionally will accidentally slip and use “TBR” or “DNF” out loud, in actual conversation (yes I am cringing) and whoever I’m speaking to gets so confused! When I try to explain it usually ends up freaking non-bookish humans out
I just want to take this occasion to share my favorite bookish term with all of you: Mashed potato books. It comes from Books Unbound, the wonderful podcast by Ariel Bisset and Raeleen Lemay and it is used for books which you keep delaying although you know they are going to be great. I’m sure many people have already heard about the podcast, but if you haven’t, I higly recommend checking it out!
Earlier I just read the books directly without marking any progress cause I wasn’t aware about Goodreads. There I slowly came to know all those terms for the first time. Now I’m the pleased to inform that I’m all caught up ☺️😉. Love ur articles Jesse! U r just so adorable and entertaining. I’ve read so many of your suggested books. U r my favourite booktuber! P.S. I’m very jealous of your book collection. I wish I could raid it cause most of them are my taste.
Jesse is what I need these days, these article’s always make me happy and with this stupid world I really need that I can’t really remember how I felt when I stepped in to the reading community but I do remember that it took me a while to understand OTP, how far I still now is that OTP was the only one that I needed to ask someone.
I couldn’t for the life of me remember what “DNFed” meant, like I just couldn’t catch the word booktubers were trying to say and even after searching it up, I’d immediately forget the next time I wanted to the meaning. My google search history has DNF in it a couple of times. Thanfully, because of this story, I remember the full form now😂😂
I’ve been a reader for a long time, but I had never heard most bookish terms until about a year or two ago likely because I don’t really have social media. So like it started when I got Pinterest and had to scroll through all the comments until I found another uneducated person who asked for clarification. (Because psh why would I ask myself. I’m far too self conscious for that…)
I’ve only been ‘here’ (booktube) for about six years and I definitely did not know what most abbreviations meant. I still don’t know some but I don’t try to look them up because I am wary of the questionable things that can come up when one searches a perfectly normal term 🤣🤣 so I just watch and hope someone will eventually explain things.
I was quite confused at first because there were so many terms I didn’t understand, so I had asked Google and looked them up in the dictionary. I’m still doing that. Some of the terms kind of understood as I watched Jesse’s articles✨ Reading the comments here, I felt a little relieved to see that there were many people like me. And, I had always wanted to ask: “What is ”Instalove”?”
… I had to do a lot of looking up (still needs to do) because English not my first language. But honestly, even with my first, I am like a stranded fish when it comes to abbreviations sometimes (is there an abbreviation for abbreviation?). TBR was something I could get from context quickly. But DNF was a new thing to me. I knew OTP from the rps and rpg world. (Also generally “gaming”. And the wonderful world of manga). What I still need to learn to differentiate are the scales of spicy reads because depending on its scale, I actually skip the book or only the steamy passages. 😬 I’m always like “Okay, guys. You do you. Byyyyye” and move on.
I’ve been reading since I was a child, but I never knew there was an entire community and terminology for book lovers until I joined YouTube and just started perusal them. Learning the lingo was odd at first, but I quickly got it and I’m really bad at generally at keeping up with internet lingo/slang, does anyone have that issue? On a unrelated note, Where do you buy your shirts Jesse?