In Ur Blog, Strunkin Ur Grammar

[bloodyrosemccoy]

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.

Comments

[luinmir.livejournal.com]

ince my sister and I fairly consistently use some of the more bizarre forms of netspeak in everyday locution, I think my mom might just take it in stride as one of those things. Either that, or she blocks us out entirely.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I just LOVE it when that slips out. When you yell "WTF?" aloud or at the dinner table ask "I can has potatoes now?"

My sister ends things with "-zors." It annoys my parents but amuses the hell out of me.