Anyone else feel weird saying "vape"?

[Haytoni]

Yes agree stop with the .... and condom, had no idea what was being talked about when I heard it. In a video I soon discovered what it was all about. Also agree using vaping is weird, kinda like doing drugs, or sniffing, or what ever that stuff is called.

 

[maxx]

Some names just stick....can't be helped. Science is struggling with the worst case in nomenclature history. The term "Big Bang" was thrown at the origin of the universe theory, and that almost insulting term, stuck to this day.

They did much better with quantum mechanics, though. Sounds very cool.

Also....e-cigs are mainly an internet thing these days. And everything gets shortened on the net.

 

[Katattack]

Found out "vapor" in Dutch is "damp"
I'm gonna call myself a "dampire" from now on

 

[Nilius]

Found out "vapor" in Dutch is "damp"
I'm gonna call myself a "dampire" from now on

LOL

awesome

 

[Metstoo]

Found out "vapor" in Dutch is "damp"
I'm gonna call myself a "dampire" from now on

Yer killin me!

 

[Metstoo]

Or, for the machismoatically (sic) inclined, "It's miasma. And this here is my miasma cylinder. You don't want to mess with it, takes some know-how. And it's mine. I miazz. Friend of mine in China gets it to me. I maybe could hook you up, though."

I think I like miasma best. I am miasmic.

Or misting?

Spindrift sounds so... frugal.

What about wafting? or flatus?

Oooh! Mizzle!

 

[aubergine]

What a fabulous idea!

Flatulating Dampires!

Great gaunt, blank-eyed armies of us, wafting, ever wafting...

Tamp down the manhole covers!

We're heeeeeeeeeeere....

 

[CES]

for me 'miasma' conjures up a foul fog drifting down and choking a city, though that does make it a fitting setting for dampires....

 

[aubergine]

CES, you have the connotation right, actually... but hey, whatever works.

 

[Metstoo]

Dampires of the Mizzle: Wafting Revolution

Coming soon to a theater near you.

 

[Katattack]

I like the word miasma and the way it rolls off the tongue. However, after watching too many animes the word is firmly connected in my mind with poison. I guess in high quantities nicotine is...hrm maybe...yes that works.

 

[YePsTeR]

Agree 100% - a lot of politics revolves around semantics so there is no doubt the term "vaporizer" is better from a political standpoint as opposed to anything that contains "cig" or cigarette.

Politicians do a lot of things based on polls so to the uneducated out there they just HEAR the word smoking or cigarette and they're automatically against it.

I don't like the term vaping either but I can't really think of anything better and as mentioned that IS what were are doing.

I tell fellow smokers who inquire that it's an e-cig - I tell airport security it's a vaporizer

I think the "personal" part is implied because I ain't letting anyone use it - I mean we didn't call cigs: "personal cigarettes"

Anyway: overall if I think about it I just say: vaporizer and I'm taking a "hit"

The name of this forum will NEVER be changed. "e-cig" if the term people search for and this forum is one of the fastest growing forums on the net. Popular sites don't change their name and won't risk losing Google ranking.

Oh and YePsTeR where did you get Mar 21 as the date for True Blood? HBO website says summer. Do you mean the latest season on DVD? You got my psyched for nothin'

MY BAD!!! and you both are right!! I just jumped the gun.....I'm sorry.....I just need my "V"!!!!!!

 

[Brewster 59]

Better to Vape than get the sin tax rape Pass the buttplugs on the left hand side.

 

[CES]

the lightly scented spindrift exhaled by the dampires slowly helped clear the miasma that coated everything

 

[Belletrist]

to me, the 'personal' in PV is no more weird than the 'personal' in PC. personal as in not a piece of industrial equipment; personal as in for personal use, portable, etc.

as for vaping, *shrugs*. it does seem the intuitive word to use, transitioning from "smoking" used for inhaling smoke.

but then, i've always been a "if people look at me weird, screw 'em" type.

 

[Topso]

Vapor in swedish is ånga, and i dont like it at all...Shall we go out and ånga? lol , no i need help with a swedish term for it. I keep saying smoking (röka) until i come up with something better.

 

[m201]

I prefer e-cig rather than personal vaporizer or PV. (sounds like asthma relief to me, heh) ... e-cig sounds 'techy' to me and I love cool gadgets

I prefer 'tobacco cigarettes' or just 'cigs' /// not analogs
I use the term 'vaping' for e-cigs /// 'smoking' for cigs
I love the term 'vaping' and now consider myself a 'vaper'

"a rose is still a rose by any other name"


to vape or not to vape ...
I love to vape!!!

 

[K9Luvr]

I tell any casual acquaintance that I am partaking in Alternative Nicotine Therapy because my doctor suggested that I quit smoking.

It sounds likes a medical study and these people rarely ask any more. If they do continue to inquire, I tell them it does the same thing as the patch and leave it at that. I get tired of explaining it to every Tom, Richard and Harry.

I Love that! If you don't mind, I would like use that term, as well. Definitely would stop the 1000 questions

 

[m201]

I was just holding my battery enclosed in my palm to see if it was lighting up ... so

I am lighting up, heh

 

[aubergine]

Etymology:

vapor:
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. vapour, from L. vaporem (nom. vapor) "exhalation, steam, heat," of unknown origin. Vapors "fit of fainting, hysteria, etc." is 1660s, from medieval notion of "exhalations" from the stomach or other organs affecting the brain.
vaporize Look up vaporize at Dictionary.com
1630s, from vapor + -ize. Originally "to smoke tobacco;" later "to convert into vapor" (1803), and "to spray with fine mist" (1900).

See? it's EVOLUTION. (my italics)