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One day a friend and I were sitting at our favorite beach talking about
surf conditions when the idea came to mind to start a website for the many
words and phrases surfers use.
There's no doubt that surfers have an unusual and distinct language. After
all, he and I had a detailed discussion about wave conditions, the setup at
our break, tidal influences, shifting sand bars, swell direction and
period, wind influences, and so on. To the uninformed, this conversation
would have sounded like an unfamiliar language. Shortly thereafter, the
idea gelled and Riptionary.com was launched. |
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Although the site wasn't an overnight success, over time surfers from around
the world began submitting their entries. Because of generous surfer
contributions, Riptionary has grown from a few dozen words into the largest
online surf lingo dictionary with well over one thousand terms, sayings and
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Today we're a top PageRank site at Google and garner a top-tier (if not the
top) position in every leading domestic and international search engine for
surf lingo and surf dictionary queries.
On average, we receive about 50,000 unique sessions per month and to date have
served well over 4 million lexicon page views. Our site is regularly used as a
reference source by everyone from students and journalists to marketing and
media firms to anthropologists; we get 'em all.
Now we're no experts in etymology, nor do we claim to be - we're surfers. But
Riptionary isn't about compiling a sub-culture language for the historical
perspective per-se. It's more
about viewing the surfer, and surf culture, thru the lens that is the language. Dig it?
To this end, our focus centers on the specific words that surfers
use in their daily lives to express themselves. We've taken this approach
primarily because we believe it's more interesting, but also because
it offers a unique perspective when looking at past, present and the
evolution of surf culture.
We hope you find Riptionary.com fun, interesting and informative.
Surf On!
S.A. Mathews
VP, Chief Surfologist
Riptionary.com - Surf Lingo Lexicon
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