In Ur Blog, Strunkin Ur Grammar
Aug. 7th, 2007 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Or: Try To Keep Up With The Acronyms
Scene: The office. MOM is taking a look at AMELIA'S blog, and gets to the entry titled "I Has a Hank."
MOM: I'll bet people get annoyed when you write "I has."
AMELIA: ... What?
MOM: You did it again here. "I also has a book." People will think you mean "I have" and it's a typo.
AMELIA: They won't. It's ... it's something you say on the internet. It's netspeak.
MOM: They won't think you're stupid and that you can't use your own language properly?
AMELIA: On the internet, "proper use of language" has an entirely different meaning.
I'm glad she dropped it at that. I was worried she'd ask what that meaning was, and then I'd have to delve into a long explanation of macro-inspired internet idioms and lolcats and I'm in ur [noun], [verb]in ur [noun]z, and finally I was going to have to break it to her that OMGWTFBBQBACONZORS!!11!1! is a recognizable interjection as far as the internet is concerned. My mom is cool, but I don't think she's ready for that yet.
She'd be all, O_o.
And she wouldn't have any idea how to express that, either.
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Date: 2007-08-07 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-07 05:58 pm (UTC)ROFL *tries to envision explaining netspeak to my dad* *headsplode*
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Date: 2007-08-07 07:57 pm (UTC)My sister ends things with "-zors." It annoys my parents but amuses the hell out of me.
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Date: 2007-08-07 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-07 07:43 pm (UTC)No kidding. Netspeak has come far enough alond now that it can probably be considered at least its own dialect with all kinds of fun things like grammar.
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Date: 2007-08-07 07:54 pm (UTC)Once I tried explaining to my aunt that there's a dialect you use on the internet, and she asked me very seriously, "How do I go about learning it? Are there classes?"
I had to resist the urge to give her the LOLcats URL and say it was an online tutorial. I ALMOST DID.
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Date: 2007-08-07 11:48 pm (UTC)I IRC'd for far too long when I was younger, and I still have to watch myself when I type or I devolve into bad abbreviation habits (ppl = people, irl = in real life, etc) I know, I know, thats all "old school", but its deeply etched into my poor brain.
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Date: 2007-08-08 05:43 am (UTC)I can has smileyz?
Date: 2007-08-10 05:17 am (UTC)And I love emoticons-- or at least, I did before all the IM programs started turning them into little 3-D smileys that somehow manage not to express the emotion as well as the punctuation marks! One of the oddest mental experiences I've ever had was when I caught myself drawing a smiley on a piece of paper-- only instead of a circle with eyes and mouth, I accidentally sketched a colon followed by a close-parenthesis! Totally blew my mind.
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Date: 2007-08-10 05:55 am (UTC)My husband and I also sometimes verbalize expressions, such as "shrug," "D face" (:D) or "A face" (o.oa). The internets has ruined my Emnglish forever. Or something.