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re poll: what does 'swag' mean?

felouk   June 27th, 2011 8:02a.m.

What is skritter swag?

jww1066   June 27th, 2011 8:28a.m.

Branded merchandise. See my recent comment in this thread: http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=103263475&comments=16

Rolands   June 27th, 2011 8:42a.m.

Recently skritter polls are additional challenge for those of us - non-native english speakers :)

scott   June 27th, 2011 12:51p.m.

We don't just teach you Chinese and Japanese here!

felouk   June 27th, 2011 2:49p.m.

ah! thanks. And scott, I'm sure we appreciate your efforts ;-)

Kikko-Man   June 27th, 2011 11:57p.m.

There's also this variety:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yRme0C2pmI

jww1066   June 28th, 2011 8:12a.m.

LMAO, now I'm imagining the Skritter guys throwing money around like Soulja Boy.

alxx   June 29th, 2011 5:57a.m.

swag is usually a water proof bed roll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swag_(bedroll)

great for chucking on the back of the bike for camping out when you can't be bothered carrying a tent.

jww1066   June 29th, 2011 6:00a.m.

@alxx I've never heard that meaning. Maybe it's an Australianism?
EDIT: Also, the Wikipedia link doesn't seem to work.

nick   June 29th, 2011 2:15p.m.

It's because Django loves to not include the trailing parenthesis when URLizing links. Looks like there are yet more meanings of swag:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swag

Tove   June 30th, 2011 4:48p.m.

Yes it is interesting to learn new words in English too on Skritter. But also a bit depressing - if I don´t even understand poll questions in English (L2), how will I ever be able to learn Chinese (L5)...

白开水   July 18th, 2011 4:52p.m.

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jww1066   July 18th, 2011 5:57p.m.

@baikaishui That's a backronym. The real etymology is less straightforward:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=swag

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