It's CTists, not CTers.

[tkingdoll]

This has been annoying me for a while now.

It's CTists, as in conspiracy theorists, not CTers, which would be conspiracy theorers or something else that's just plain wrong.

Thank you for your attention in this matter, carry on.

 

[brodski]

This has been annoying me for a while now.

It's CTists, as in conspiracy theorists, not CTers, which would be conspiracy theorers or something else that's just plain wrong.

Thank you for your attention in this matter, carry on.

That's just what the Illuminati want you to believe.

 

[Arkan_Wolfshade]

This has been annoying me for a while now.

It's CTists, as in conspiracy theorists, not CTers, which would be conspiracy theorers or something else that's just plain wrong.

Thank you for your attention in this matter, carry on.

Copy.

Notes to self:
Use the following terms:
CTists, not CTers
"Truth" Movement, not Truth Movement
9/11 Denier is acceptable, truthseeker is not
WTC, not GZ

 

[Beleth]

Conspiracy Theorizers.

 

[Johnny Pixels]

This has been annoying me for a while now.

It's CTists, as in conspiracy theorists, not CTers, which would be conspiracy theorers or something else that's just plain wrong.

Thank you for your attention in this matter, carry on.

Unless CTer is short for Conspiracy Theoriser. Or Conspiracy Theory Subscriber.



ETA: Or what Beleth said. Being a forum bot I really should be able to type faster.

 

[bob_kark]

Teek is right, forget all the evidences and whatnot.

 

[brodski]

Of cource Teek has forgotten that the T in CT stands for Toss.
At least it does ther way I use the term most of the time.

 

[CurtC]

I don't know - "CTist" sounds like a valuable skill, while "CTer" sounds pretty run-of-the-mill. I've had the same thought about the word "rapist."

 

[tkingdoll]

Conspiracy Theorizers.

Is theorizer in common use in the USA? Because the popular word in the UK for one who theorises is theorist.

I suppose we could have CTetician...

Edit: silly test, but what the hey:

Google search results for theorizer, 98,900

Google search results for theorist, 10,600,000

 

[tkingdoll]

I don't know - "CTist" sounds like a valuable skill, while "CTer" sounds pretty run-of-the-mill. I've had the same thought about the word "rapist."

It's raperizer. Don't you know anything?

 

[WildCat]

CT'ers = Conspiracy Theory Believers.

At least that's the way I always use it. YMMV

 

[Cheesejoff]

I prefer "fools" instead of CTists.

 

[Gravy]

I started with CTers, switched to CTists because that's more correcter, but now I just stick with CTs. It's simple, looks good on the page, rolls trippingly off the tongue, and is easy to type.

 

[Johnny Pixels]

Is theorizer in common use in the USA? Because the popular word in the UK for one who theorises is theorist.

I suppose we could have CTetician...

Edit: silly test, but what the hey:

Google search results for theorizer, 98,900

Google search results for theorist, 10,600,000

Bizzarely, a Theoriser, is someone who theorizes

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/theoriser

But I think it should be C''T

 

[tkingdoll]

CT'ers = Conspiracy Theory Believers.

At least that's the way I always use it. YMMV

Erm...why isn't it CTBers then?

 

[WildCat]

Erm...why isn't it CTBers then?

That doesn't really roll off the tougue, does it?

 

[brodski]

Erm...why isn't it CTBers then?

Because then my "conspiracy tossers" joke wouldn't have worked.

 

[Beleth]

I wouldn't say either "theorizer" or "theorist" is a common word in the USA, but we do tend to have words which mean "one who X-es" be "X-er". Teacher, programmer, manager, etc. So one who theorizes is a theorizer.

Besides, as I mentioned in IRC the other day, we use such albatrosses as "burglarize" when we mean "burgle". So common usage is a poor yardstick.

"Unhand me, you cad. You shall not refer to me as a common crook. I am a burglist."

 

[WildCat]

BTW, I call them conspiracy theory believers because 99% of them don't actually have an actual theory, just a hodge-podge of what usually turn out to be mutually exclusive beliefs. They believe there's a conspiracy, but don't know exactly what it is.

 

[tkingdoll]

I wouldn't say either "theorizer" or "theorist" is a common word in the USA, but we do tend to have words which mean "one who X-es" be "X-er". Teacher, programmer, manager, etc. So one who theorizes is a theorizer.

Besides, as I mentioned in IRC the other day, we use such albatrosses as "burglarize" when we mean "burgle". So common usage is a poor yardstick.

"Unhand me, you cad. You shall not refer to me as a common crook. I am a burglist."

All those poor physicists, chemists and whale biologists