Meuporg or MMMPORPG

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Le Meuporg (Télématin France 2 idéos similaires Auteur: masterclub12 Durée: 00:00:54 Vues: 5377 Note : 10*/10 (1 votes) Commentaires: 2 Envoyer ames_dmis Bleauer Lcopier cette vidéo 1-4 sur 6 vidéos Ecrire à l'auteur Top de la semaine 贸Noter la vidéo Sauver dans mes favoris Ajouter à mes chaines Partager sette video sur Facehook 00:00 / 00:54 france 2.f 4menu e vidéo Description: Nathanaěl de Rincquesen, journaliste & Télématin a commis une petite erreur en abordant le sujet des MMORPG (les initiales anglaises pour jeu de role en ligne massivement multijoueur). Il a appelé ça un Meuporg. ca fait fureur dans le milieu des jeux de rôles, et sur toute la blogosphère Vidéo ajoutée le : 24-03-2010 16:18:16 Catégories:Humour Télévision Jeux Mots-clés: Langue : Français Lieu de tournage: France Adresse de la vidéo : http://ma-tvideo.france2.fr/video/iLyR0oafvUHi.html - de détails

Le meuporg sur Télématin ma-tvideo.france2.fr La vidéo culte de Télématin sur le Meuporg (MMORPG) sur france2.fr

I'm translating, for everybody to enjoy ;) There were some orthograph mistakes, but I didn't "translate" them, as I think it would add up with my own English mistakes and make for a horrible text to read ;) As it's a bit long, I'll have to cut it in two comments:/ Dear I'd like to apologize ifI hurt your ears during my press review! To tell you the truth, I didn't knovw anything about meuporgs (as it's become the hype word) before I read the article in Libération about video game addiction. I won't lie to you...I shouldn't have used that word since I don't understand it! It's a mistake of which I'm the only responsible. To tell you the whole thing...I'm a complete stranger as far as video games go! My last memory about them is so old...Do you know CPC 6128? But in my defence, the article was very vague about meuporgs...And even more vague about what the letters mean and the pronunciation of the word! I tried looking for it on Wikipedia...But I lacked time (I sometimes finish my press reviews on the set...), and that prevented me from fully understanding the expression and what the initials mean! Some of your colleagues are reproaching me I just repeated what is written in the article...But the goal of a press review is to do exactly that, without any personal insight!!! It may sound strange to you, but I don't own any TV, nor a computer...And none of the many books I read has ever told me about the meuporgs! I do accept criticism and to be shown my mistakes. I also accept the cultures I'm not familiar with (and I think you can tell video games are one of those). Please do not sink into nasty and lame comments which will ony - to me at least - prove Libération's thesis that video games can breed addictions and behavior troubles for some users. Do come back to me if you have any other criticism or questions. I accept all exchanges, as long as they are constructive... Sincerel NdeR."

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About

"Meuporg" is an erroneous pronunciation of the English initialism MMORPG, which stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.

Origin

The mispronunciation of MMORPG as "Meuporg" was first quoted by French TV journalist Nathanaël de Rincquesen in a France 2 news report about the concerns of video game addiction, particularly with popular MMORPGs such as Ultima Online and World of Warcraft. Unaware of its conventional pronunciation, Rincquesen misread the term as a single word, as in "Meuporg," and later misspelled the initialism as "MMMPORPG" during the broadcast, rendering himself highly exploitable to the French audiences and video game fans on the web (shown below).

On March 18th, 2010, shortly after the airing of the news program, YouTuber Blakkos uploaded a clip of the segment^[1]. The video gained more than 215,000 views in the first two weeks.

Spread

In the following days, Rincquesen's gaffe inspired a number of websites including a Facebook page^[3] on March 22nd and the parody site Meuporg.com^[2] on March 23rd. Meanwhile, intense discussions and debates regarding the proper pronunciation ensued on gaming-related blogs and forum communities, such as France 2's own discussion forum and Wikipedia's discussion page for the entry on "Meuporg"^[8]. Soon, French news outlets began to pick up on Rincquesen's gaffe and the online reaction^[4]. On March 31st, French news site Le Post reported on the online phenomenon^[7] and on April 6th, it published an interview with Nathanaël de Rincquesen. As search interest in "Meuporg" continued to rise, even France 2 reportedly purchased Google ads that linked to the clip of the news report in search results page (shown below).

Notable Examples

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Additional Episodes

Online interest in "Meuporg" resurged again in August 2010^[9], when the it was reiterated in an episode of France 3's TV soap opera "Plus Belle La Vie"^[15] by a female character who takes revenge on a player of an imaginary MMORPG called Graal Quest for hacking into her relative's computer. However, as she is about to erase all of his characters from the account, she refers to the game as a "Morpeug" (shown below). This episode was also widely reported in the French mainstream media and gaming-related blogs like Clubic^[10], Ecrans^[11], Koreus^[12], Tom's Guide^[13] and GameBlog^[14], not to mention a second wave of parodies that followed on YouTube.