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>>41

What you just said nulls the "no" at the beginning of your post.

"Anthro" is short for "anthropomorphic animal". Hence, an "anthro" is an animal with human features, and something is "anthro" if it contains such characters. We seem to be in agreement.

However, this does not make it a synonym for "furry" because "furry" has uses beyond this; those associated with the fandom ("furry culture", or "jim is a furry").

Hence, the only time it is correct to use "anthro" and incorrect (or less preferable) to use "furry" is when something involves anthropomorphic animal characters but does not involve any of the other conotations of the word.

For example, I could say "Star Fox is an anthro video game, not a furry video game.

If you're talking about old-school furry culture though, that qualifies as furry. Saying "We are anthro fans, not furries" in that particular context is wrong.
And saying "We are anthro, not furry" doesn't make sense in any context.

Umm than whats the diffrence between furry and anthro?

What cutural connotations?

I thought they where the same thing.

>>42

Never mind the semantics, or the 'correct' dictionary definitions of the words; I'm telling you what the words mean in terms of the fandom, and, as is the case in any fandom, the words take on a new life of their own with only the thinest of connections to any real life lexicons.  In other words, it's 'fanspeak'.

I'm well aware that 'furry' has come to mean many things beyond just anthropomorphic arts; you're telling me nothing new.  In fact, the very fact that it's come to mean so many things beyond its original application has been the source for many headaches in the fandom for the past ten to fifteen years now.  I'm explaining to you why a segment of the fandom decided to use the word 'anthro' as a means of distancing themselves from the unfortunate sexual connotations the word 'furry' also grew to convey.  Believe me, there was a whole big argument about the whole thing when it first came up a decade ago, and it was further agitated by a few individuals who tried to point out that there really wasn't any difference and tried to further blur the distinctions by calling it 'anthrofurry'.

You can easily apply the word 'furry' to any anthropomorphic animal work you want, and you'd be essentially correct; but understand that those who call themselves 'anthros' or use the word 'anthro' when referring to their work, are deliberating distancing themselves from material and practices they find objectionable because they don't want to be associated with the sexual connotations the term 'furry' has accumulated.

So in the general 'furry fandom' fanspeak, 'Furry' tends to mean anything it wants, and in general refers to adult material, while 'Anthro' refers to G and PG furry works and those with an interest in the same.

If you doubt that, try googling up furry' and 'anthro' websites; you'll find that the furry sites will pretty much run the gamut, but the anthro sites will more often than not be family friendly.

(This, of course, completely overlooks those who don't participate in either and retain the original 'funny-animal' or 'bigfoot cartoon' labels.)

>>47

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>>41
No it doesn't. Anthropos means 'man.' Hence anthropo-morphic, anthropo-logy, anthropo-centrism, anthropic principle, etc.

>>49
Nah, I think only furries in denial hate people like that. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, fuck you, I'm a dragon!

>>51
i would have stopped after his first reply.

also, you people seem to be off-topic....

Just to clear up 36's comment... Second Life is NOT a furry game. It started out human. The furries came in later!

>>54
>>55

Yes, but the furry community within the game is pretty well established, and has become one of the hubs of the furry community.

I don't remember the name of it offpaw, but there is a 'serious' minded 'yiffy' (I hate the word but it does describe the sex) scifi warstory involving a fox or wolf named Rafe(there was a love triangle between a fox, a rabbit, and a wolf). The combat isn't all that good actually, bloody version of SatAM cartoons of yore, a little better on the dogfights (as in spaceships) but the furries have the same urges as real animals, and, unable to escape their primal calls even in an age of science, have different ways of dealing with the hormone/pheromone overload.

It was a pretty interesting read, and the largest con against it is I remember it was unfinished, no new updates for 3 years (discovered it in 2004ish). Anyone know what it was? I'd like to read it again, and also submit it as my suggestion. If he would just take some higher english classes to get around the repetition, and maybe play some realistic wargames/fpses/flight sims he could fix all that was wrong with it very easily.

>>58
I have a nagging feeling that you're a troll. Still, the idiocy present in your post is giving me the sort of headache that may end in burst blood vessels, so I'm going to have to ask you to kindly leave the internet.

>>60
*nags*