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The word "tog"...
You can tell a lot about people by the words they use... Mar 10 06 01:52 pm Link It doesn't sound like tog is catching on. Say, here's a name for "photographer" that I just made up: GWCWTHGGTM. Stands for "guy with camera who thinks he's God's gift to models." Pronounced Gwicwithgegtum. Catchy, eh? Mar 10 06 01:55 pm Link Vance wrote: Just like to point out that LOL, LMAO, MUA, GWC, etc, are abbreviations of more than one word. There are a few, such as "mod" which is short for moderator, NOT MODEL, but they are a LOT fewer than the others mentioned. I recognize that its different sides of the same coin, but the only thing I've ever heard any complaints about is "tog", so why continue to use it? Especially in regards to yourself? I'd back away slowly from any photographer who said (online or off) "I'm a tog and proud of it". IMO (MY opinion, not anyone elses), it would make them seem like a GWC. Mar 10 06 02:05 pm Link William Coleman wrote: *snicker* Wow. Cant wait to see you credited in the next edition of Websters. Mar 10 06 02:07 pm Link Tog? What a stupid term. Anyone who uses it should be dragged behind my car in the 90/94 express lanes, full throttle. Mar 10 06 02:09 pm Link I'm a model. I don't like to use words with 3 or more syllables. So I prefer tog  LOL!!Mar 10 06 02:09 pm Link Myopic Earache wrote: Hahahah!! Which you don't have to go through at 30mph any more because of the new "Open Road Tolling". Mar 10 06 02:15 pm Link Myopic Earache wrote: "So hostile, so angry, damn that rap music" (Dr. Doolittle) Mar 10 06 02:19 pm Link Tog sounds like the relative of a troll. Mod is short for moderator not model. Communication is an important skill many don't seem to learn. Spelling is important since we're talking in text. No need to try and re-invent the language we're using. Especially when you think about the fact that even American English is a modified version or English itself. English is derived from other languages. I wonder what the next language will be called. Netspeak? When we celebrate and justify ignorance we teach ignorance. There's always someone less informed learning from what they see. Mar 10 06 02:19 pm Link Doug Harvey wrote: I agree with Mr. Harvey. I always spell it out. Or depending on who I am talking with I'll call a photographer a "shooter". But that is only with people that know me and know my military background. Mar 10 06 02:24 pm Link tog (tÅ?g, tôg) Informal. n. togs - 1. Clothes 2. A coat or cloak. tr.v., togged, tog·ging, togs. 1. To dress or clothe Given that the word means "to clothe," it's especially inaccurate as an abbreviation for photographer... Mar 10 06 02:27 pm Link CristinaLex wrote: Shhhhh... you're being logical again. I think there are rules against that in discussions of this type... especially from models. ;-) Mar 10 06 02:53 pm Link CristinaLex wrote: So then why not start a thread? See how many people agree with you? Mar 10 06 03:00 pm Link S wrote: And here I thot you were my fan-girl and now u r dissin' me on a forum? I am totally gonna cry and stuff. Mar 10 06 03:08 pm Link GWC wrote: I said a GWC, not the GWC. Mar 10 06 03:08 pm Link Acronym TOG Meaning Tribal Owners Group (paintball) Tree of Gold (Utopia game) Transactions on Graphics (publication of the ACM) Total Organic Gas Top of Grating (structural) Tool of God (gaming) Theater Operations Group The Open Group The Older Gamers (gaming community) Terry's Old Geezers Technical Oversight Group Technical Objectives & Guidelines Tayana Owners Group (association of Tayana Sailboat Owners) Take-Off Gross (weight) Tactical Overlay Generator Mar 10 06 03:14 pm Link S wrote: Oh, shoot. I cant read with these busted glasses. Sorry about that. S wrote: You are totally my SLAMMIN' #1 girl then. Mar 10 06 03:14 pm Link GWC wrote: Woo hoo!! I'm #1! Mar 10 06 03:15 pm Link I don't mind it. It is no worse than calling the moderators "mods". Doesn't bother me one ioda. Mar 10 06 03:34 pm Link S wrote: *raises hand* Mar 10 06 03:36 pm Link In the other thread where it was used I had absolutely no idea what is meant. lol Never saw it before. Photog I see all the time, and use it myself. Mar 10 06 03:42 pm Link It's an annoying term. Mar 10 06 03:52 pm Link I have always referred to myself and other photographers as shooters... Mar 10 06 04:00 pm Link I don't use the word tog on here, but another web site I'm on is mainly people from UK. They you the abrevation all the time. I think it depends alot on what part of the world you're in. Mar 10 06 04:02 pm Link Thuy Anh wrote: I had alot of pogs when I was little. Mar 10 06 04:04 pm Link Jayne Jones wrote: "Mod" is short for "moderator" or regular sized for "mod" (which I guess is short for "modern," but who remembers that kind of stuff when you're trying not to fall off your Vespa?) Mar 10 06 05:54 pm Link the things that people sit around and concern themselves with. amuzes the mind. Mar 10 06 05:57 pm Link I personally don't care what you call me as long as the check clears. Mar 10 06 05:59 pm Link hmm ... have always wanted to steer away from labels & preferred just being called by my first name, or my initials as often happens; didn't really enjoy being referred to as "the photographer" ... ... maybe any more than a model would appreciate me calling her "baby" or "sweetie"; smacks of a lack of professionalism. frank (fml) Mar 10 06 06:00 pm Link FML-Photography wrote: I prefer "muffin," myself. Mar 10 06 06:13 pm Link Ian Weintraub wrote: How hospitable of you. Mar 10 06 06:35 pm Link Kristin Anne wrote: Unless he is a vegetarian. Mar 10 06 06:44 pm Link Shyly wrote: I pretend I'm from the south and say "darlin". But thats only when we are both in "friend" mode, not "professional" mode. Mar 10 06 06:50 pm Link Actually, I have never seen a photographer refer to himself as a tog in a thread. It is only models to use the term. It was an abbreviation created to shorten typing. I don't like the term but for a totally different reason. Mar 10 06 08:00 pm Link I don't use it; but neither am I bothered by it. It seems a trivial thing to get upset about considering all the people on this site who are "persuing" their career while still in "collage" and hoping to work with other "talinted" people. Count 'em, I dare ya. Tog? Hell, just call me P. Mar 10 06 08:12 pm Link S wrote: that's cool.. Mar 10 06 09:35 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: LOL. One white. One black. One blonde. Mar 10 06 10:32 pm Link I have a minute now and will give me reason for objecting to the word tog. It is netspeak. The goal of any model here should be to get mainstream work because that is where the majority of high paying gigs are. Whether we like it or not, the web is looked at with, well for lack of a better word, suspicion by many mainstream casting directors, art directors and producers. Imagine a model sitting in an audition with an art director and is asked who she has worked with and she responded: "Well, I have worked with John and Andy and I would love to work with that tog, Annie Liebowitz," how do you think the art director would react? First, it might well glue on the title web model, but more importantly, the art director might have no idea what you meant. We are a community, but we are not the mainstream community. Our goal is for our members to be accepted. We shouldn't, for the sake of a few keystrokes, encourage models to create netspeak that might one day come back to haunt them. Mar 11 06 07:43 am Link I only recently had it pointed out to me by another photographer on this site that the word 'tog' was offensive to some. Before that, on an Australian forum I visit reguarly, people use the word in most posts and it's never come up as a problem before. I'm only new to this forum so I missed the previous posts about this but I'm glad I saw this one and got the chance to read people's thoughts on it. I didn't think twice about using it on the net but it's not something I'd say in verbal communication. I think I'll refrain from using the term now because it seems to annoy so many people  Mar 11 06 07:58 am Link Ian Weintraub wrote: " " Mar 11 06 07:59 am Link |
