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.

[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!"}

[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!!!

[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]

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.

[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.

[sylvan-dweller.livejournal.com]

The answer to the first question is:

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

[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.

[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.

[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.)