Language Check!

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[Poll #1583171]

Also, this one’s not as official, but you’re welcome to use the comments to fill in the hilarious current ironic internet slang term that will take on another layer of irony when the next generation finds out our dorky selves used it back in the day!

Comments

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

I should point out that although I generally use 'web site', I think website is actually a more correct term.
Even though the dubdubdub is a unique enitity from the Internet, I almost never refer to it at all.
I generally use Teh Intarwehbs, occasionally the Internets, and rarely anything else, although I have a soft spot in my brain for the Toobs.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

although I have a soft spot in my brain for the Toobs.

Ah, Ted Stevens. 'Twas his most positive lasting contribution to humanity.

And at this point I've heard "triple-w" used mostly as a synonym for "internet," only with ironic connotations. (But then, every synonym for "internet" has ironic connotations.) And as a descriptivist, that's where my interest lies--in how folks use it.

Every once in a while I toss in "interblag" because it stuck in my head ever since <a href="http://xkcd.com/181/>that one comic</a>.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

That chart is missing "webternet".

[tay421.livejournal.com]

I'm with blackbyrd on the dubdubdub thing. I almost never call it the World Wide Web*. I like calling it "the Intertubes" or "the Interbutts", myself.

*The only time I remember referring to it as such is when quoting this old... program thing... that my dad found. It's just an image of a microphone with a face ranting with this whiny, nasal voice over it complaining about AOL, looping forever. I swear I was under the age of ten the last time I heard it. And even after all these years, I've still got it memorized.

_{"How come AOL's always busy? It took me FOREVER to log on! When's AOL gonna fix that PROBLEM? Who's gonna answer my QUESTION? Who's typing? This is confusing! WHY do I keep hearing sounds? I don't have mail! Somebody asked for my password, I gave it out, is that bad? Guide! Guide! How do I get to the World Wide Web, I don't get it-- how-- what's my address? Can I add names to my account? Who's gonna answer me? Were you talking to me? Guiiide, GUIIIIIIDE!"}

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

Interbutts is new to me. I like it.

I used to use Intertubez, but that was so last year, which is eons in internets time. I still support its use though, because We Should Never Forget that idiots like that can make laws about net neutrality at any time.

I used to do tech support for people like that AOLer from hell. Fortunately not for AOL, but they were just as stupid.

[tay421.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who used to do tech support for Adobe and HP products... He always came back with some interesting stories to tell (and some very unfortunate or bizarre names since he had to take down everyone's information). Shame I don't remember any of them now...

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

I call it "teh Intertubes" (is a series of tubes! And not like a dump truck at all.) Occasionally, like tay421 (by the way that's a horrific icon), "teh Interbutts".

Also, I never use "world wide web", unironically nor no. Maybe "teh Interwebs".

Relatedly, IIINTAAARNEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

[tay421.livejournal.com]

Muahaha, I love that icon. <3

ಠ_ಠ

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure that icon is Donald Rumsfeld, heavily shooped.

[childthursday.livejournal.com]

Do people still say "the net", capitalized or apostrophied, any more? I remember I did used to say "I am talking to my friends on the Net," but haven't said it for years. "I'm on the internet," or "I am on the interwebz/intertubez" if I am speaking to my girlfriend or cat, but not "the net." Huh.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I can imagine saying it, if I was saying "Rio's computer is broken and can't access the net" or whatever (as opposed to "the network", which I'd say if she couldn't even access other hosts in our house).

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

If I was talking about the WWW project (or TheProject.html, as the URL used to be), I would say "the World-Wide Web". Using that name to refer to the ubiquitous database that grew from that project is like referring to water as, I don't know, oxygen dihydride (this may not be accurate, since I'm not a chemist).

As for the Internet/internet thing, I write it with a capital because a) it's a proper noun and b) it's not any of the other internets out there. I am inconsistent about Web/web, however.

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

Dihydrogen monoxide, as the joke commonly goes.

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

That stuff is DEADLY!!!1!

_{No, it doesn't even get a *rimshot*.}

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

I've gotten lazy about capitalizing Internet, so I don't most of the time, even though I know I should.

I put a space in web site, but that's because I'm old school and when I first started doing them in 1997, that was the acceptable form of the term. but, the interwebz are lazy and don't like to bother with paltry niceties such as correct grammar and spaces between words, website it now is, much as it make me squick to admit this.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'd say there's no real way you should do it at this point because we're just coming up with these terms. I'm just curious to see which ones are likely to stick, and which ones are most used.

[sylvan-dweller.livejournal.com]

The answer to the first question is:

The internet is really, really great. (FOR PORN!)

[sylvan-dweller.livejournal.com]

Also may be a valid answer to the last question about current internet slang, etc. :)

[gryphart.livejournal.com]

I got that song stuck in my head from the first line of the poll as well...

[baby-rissa-chan.livejournal.com]

Same here.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Then my work here is done!

[viizou.livejournal.com]

I put caps everywhere, but purely for esthetic reasons (subjective ones, at that). A fellow student of mine is actually actively fighting the use of caps in "Internet," because she argues that it's a medium like any other (e.g., you don't write "Television").

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

My answers to this quiz depend on whether I'm writing professional copy for someone else, or if I'm representing myself.

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

So I gave you the answers to my general usage, and not the Book of Style answers that I know and use when I must for a paycheck.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Good--them's were what I was looking for! Thanks!

[madcap-shiny.livejournal.com]

All I know is that lolcat!speak will never, ever go away.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I tend to make a semantic distinction between the Internet and "the Intarwebs". The former is the worldwide network we all know and love. The latter is the subset consisting of 4chan, SomethingAwful, lolcats, YouTube poop, fanimutations, memes, Timecube, etc. The toxic but addictive gunk that gathers in the crevices and worms its way into everything eventually.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I kinda do the same thing--'internet' is the medium and 'interwebs' and other such variations (including 'internets') refer to the subculture surrounding it--not just the stupid shit, but also the honestly creative parts, and the social and linguistic norms surrounding it.

I still rather like the term 'internest' for that latter category, too. To me it's quite evocative ...

[westrider.livejournal.com]

You know about my fondness for Caps, so that part's probably not a surprise. I often actually go so far as to InterCap WebSite or InterNet.

IntarWebs is my usual slang term of choice for the Internet

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

Agreeing with fenmere, above. I gave my personal answers. (For the others, you have to pay.)

Also, both instances of the first sentence are incorrect. Should be "The internet is really, really, great." (And I have no Oxford comma icon. [Shut up! I don't care it's not a proper Oxford moment.])

Also, 'teh intertubez' FTW. Or 'intarwebz.' (But never, never 'intartubez.' That's just wrong.)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

You're right, it's not an Oxford comma, but it's also not correct. 'really, really great' is an adjectival phrase. Both 'really's there are heads intensifying 'great' and thus playing the part of coordinate modifiers; when that is the case, you only need a comma between the modifiers in the phrase, but not between modifier and adjective. (How to test: take out the first adverb and you would wind up with *"The internet is really, great.")

Granted, this is nonstandard because in this case the modifiers are a redoubling of a single intensifier, but it takes on the same construction as a coordinate modifier in English. (As redoubling is not used in many cases, I have also seen it take on hierarchichal construction, as in "the internet is really really great," with the first 'really' intensifying the second 'really' and thus not needing a comma, but that seems less prevalent.)

All this malarkey aside, though, the way it's SAID sure sounds like there's a comma there. ;)