bronyspeak

bronyspeak

English

Etymology

brony +‎ -speak

Noun

bronyspeak (uncountable)

1. (fandom slang) The special slang used within the brony community.
   • 2013, Jon Coumes, "What Do Men's Rights Activists and Bronies Have in Common?", The American Prospect, 7 April 2013:

     Brony communities invented ‘bronyspeak’ and use codes of community-enforced niceness so that ‘nopony’ has to suffer social rejection.

   • 2015, Bill Ellis, "What Bronies See When They Brohoof: Queering Animation on the Dark and Evil Internet", Journal of American Folklore, Volume 128, Number 509, Summer 2015:

     This playful "ponyspeak" is innocent and easy to decode, but it inspired the much more vernacular "bronyspeak," a hybrid of this official wordplay with oral urban slang.

   • 2016, Nicolai Puggaard Hansen, "Fandom In The Digita; Age: An Exploration of Value Co-Creation in Online Fan Communities", thesis submitted to Copenhagen Business School, page 53:

     In the Brony fandom, despite referencing phrases and catch phrases from the show, the bronies have created a separate language, Bronyspeak.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bronyspeak.