29 September 2024 - languagelog (original) (raw)

Silent Suiters

A bluesky post linked to this reddit page showing a display of the "rack of consent badges at a furry convention":

Being ignorant of furry lingo, my first thought was that "silent suiter" was an idiosyncratic spelling for "silent suitor", but Google's AI Overview set me straight:

For more on the etiquette involved, there's the page "Do's and Don'ts of interacting with fursuiters" from 2024 Anthrocon.

And it turns out that there's a whole wikifur, whose Fursuit page seems even better than Wikipedia's. It also includes links to Furry Dictionaries and Furspeech.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=66246&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=silent-suiters

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=66246