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bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2007-08-07 11:19 am
In Ur Blog, Strunkin Ur Grammar
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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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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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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