Left arrow to go back. Click, space, or arrow keys to move forward. Follow the table of contents (lower in instructions) to skip to a specific term. (Ctrl+F to find them) The Scratch community uses a whole lot of slang, jargon, buzzwords, colloquialisms, terms, and acronyms that everyone seems to expect new scratchers to magically somehow understand. Because *everyone* seems to understand it, I often felt dumb asking "what does that mean?" So I've made a project, a tutorial of sorts, or maybe like a "Scratcher to English dictionary" with a big long list of these terms and what they mean, to help clear up some of the confusion. TABLE OF CONTENTS (with keyboard keys): a) ST b) WIP / WIWO c) BRB / AFK / GTG d) IRL e) Backpack f) MAP / MSP g) AMV / PMV h) DTA i) CC / CCE / DTAE j) AT / AR / DT k) DTIYS / DTIYSE / DMC l) Meme / memes (scratch-specific) m) Studio / studios n) Curator / curators / curate o) Manage / promote / manager / managers p) SDS q) Featured (home page) r) FPC s) Featured (profile) t) PFP / icon / icons u) OC v) RP w) Love / loves / "What the community is loving" x) Favorite / favorites y) Comment / comments / reply / replies z) Remix / remixes / remixing 0) Follow / follows / followers / following 1) f4f / follow on request 2) Advertising / advertisement 3) Reporting / reports / report 4) Tag / Tags 5) Thumbnail / thumbnails Look! Tags! I don't normally bother to use tags, but these are some examples for you: #NewScratchers #New #NewScratcher #Tutorial #Tutorials #Terms #Term #Jargon #Buzzwords #Buzzword #Acronym #Acronyms #Help #Colloquialism #Colloquialisms #Understand #Dictionary #ScratchDictionary
Curated Oct 24, 2019 by @Bellevue91, tysm!!!! Thanks to everyone who answered my questions! Thanks @Creativegirl9 for proposing this for feature! Other teaching projects by me: Tutorial: how to get views https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/301028669/ Tutorial: how to make sprites walk with perspective https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/300777839/ Tutorial: How to do pixel art https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/303099848/ Organization Tips from a College Student https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/338129887/ If you remix, change something https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/304037361/ Video-games as an art form https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/303672069
