Intentional bad writing/speaking

[Layz92]

I couldn't quite come up with an appropriate title. For this reason this may also be an already existing thread but I couldn't find one like it under the words I searched. If it does exist sorry in advance.

Does anyone hate phrases like "obvious troll is obvious" and lolcat style phrases like "I has a flavour"? Because I detest people talking like that anywhere. It's not cute and it's not funny, just let it go, you're just making yourself look stupid. I even know a girl who speaks in lolcat (I swear it has become a language of its own) in real life, and thinks she is being fresh/original. I just cant put into words how much it angers me to see English being degraded in such a way. ARGH I wish to learn a new language just so I can read perfect language without internet talk popping up. That being said, I'm fine with omg, lol and so on as long as you keep it confined to text. By the way, I'm not a grammar/spelling Nazi. Everyone makes mistakes with spelling and grammar occasionally, I don't mind that.

Also I would be overjoyed if someone could tell me how to say "laugh out loud" in Russian with phonetic English spelling next to it. Every translator I find is in Cyrillic rather than phonetics.

 

[iPatrick]

Just let the idiots talk/type how they want. Doesn't cause you any trouble, unless it's a team-mate in a game talking so poorly you can't understand them telling you that you're about to be killed.

 

[similar.squirrel]

As long as it doesn't seep too much into these forums, it doesn't bother me.
I do detest lolcats, though.

 

[GodofDisaster]

I hardly ever use Internet language, unless I'm too lazy till type out a full word. I even use full sentences when I'm texting someone. Apparently this makes me strange, according to some people.

 

[j0z]

I use lol all the time when I am IMing, and to a lesser extent the other abbreviations. But I never speak lolcat or l33t

 

[AngloDoom]

I couldn't quite come up with an appropriate title. For this reason this may also be an already existing thread but I couldn't find one like it under the words I searched. If it does exist sorry in advance.

Does anyone hate phrases like "obvious troll is obvious" and lolcat style phrases like "I has a flavour"? Because I detest people talking like that anywhere. It's not cute and it's not funny, just let it go, you're just making yourself look stupid. I even know a girl who speaks in lolcat (I swear it has become a language of its own) in real life, and thinks she is being fresh/original. I just cant put into words how much it angers me to see English being degraded in such a way. ARGH I wish to learn a new language just so I can read perfect language without internet talk popping up. That being said, I'm fine with omg, lol and so on as long as you keep it confined to text.

Internet exists in a lot of other languages, so I think you may have difficulty in that plan of yours.

I personally can't bring myself to find these things annoying. I personally think they can help the delivery of certain jokes, can make seemingly mundane things a giggle, and can instantly signify that someone has a 'geeky' sense of humour. I honestly don't think it makes people look stupid, because they are temporarily suspending their usual way of talking to get across a point ("obvious troll is obvious" - how blatant said troll is) or to create a comic effect ("I has flavour?" - quoting something found funny by many, often in a different context, recycling the joke), and sometimes just for the sake of spicing up mundane conversations ("log on to the interwebs...")

English isn't being degraded, if anything this is kind of how English evolves. People can say the word 'lol', to express how much laughter a comment created, or use the word 'troll' to explain a personality trait. I love seeing new and interesting sayings coming up. Some, such as "Oh my days" gets on my nerves sometimes, but it's more the type of person it is associated with rather than the words themselves.

I'm a big nerd for language, punctuation, English in general, but I hate this view that English should be at a standstill from this point on since some people are scared or confused by change.

 

[Layz92]

Also I would be overjoyed if someone could tell me how to say "laugh out loud" in Russian with phonetic English spelling next to it.

loud laughter is “громки смех”
sorry but you can’t exactly say laugh out loud in Russian.

Ah what a shame, thanks for trying at least.

 

[Layz92]

Internet exists in a lot of other languages, so I think you may have difficulty in that plan of yours.

I personally can't bring myself to find these things annoying. I personally think they can help the delivery of certain jokes, can make seemingly mundane things a giggle, and can instantly signify that someone has a 'geeky' sense of humour. I honestly don't think it makes people look stupid, because they are temporarily suspending their usual way of talking to get across a point ("obvious troll is obvious" - how blatant said troll is) or to create a comic effect ("I has flavour?" - quoting something found funny by many, often in a different context, recycling the joke), and sometimes just for the sake of spicing up mundane conversations ("log on to the interwebs...")

English isn't being degraded, if anything this is kind of how English evolves. People can say the word 'lol', to express how much laughter a comment created, or use the word 'troll' to explain a personality trait. I love seeing new and interesting sayings coming up. Some, such as "Oh my days" gets on my nerves sometimes, but it's more the type of person it is associated with rather than the words themselves.

I'm a big nerd for language, punctuation, English in general, but I hate this view that English should be at a standstill from this point on since some people are scared or confused by change.

I don't hate the idea of English changing. Matter of fact I love change. It's more the fact the internet is trying to drag it back to child talk quality. I thought kids got over putting on false "baby talk" back in primary school. Or maybe Prep... I don't know if you call it something different if you're A.merican

 

[Layz92]

you are welcome

on Russian forums people just say “лол“ instead of “lol”.

huh, cool. I'll have to remember that.

 

[wordsmith]

Does anyone hate phrases like "obvious troll is obvious" and lolcat style phrases like "I has a flavour"?

Both memes. Memes tend to devolve from posts which either miss a word ("I accidentally a whole coke can") or simple poor use of language ("Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"). In the same way a clown mocks the unfortunate who gets a pie in the face, these memes mock those who are unable to use the language. Repeating/using those phrases is an attempt at grasping at reflected glory, similarly to those who recited Still Alive or The Cake Is Alive after Portal got released.

 

[katieintheattic]

The language we're all typing now is simplified and shortened from 500 years ago, it will be almost unrecognisable to us in another 500. Words and sytax fall in and out of fashion, we appropriate other languages and latch on to nifty phrases; the nature of English is that it is a mongrel language.

With people from all over the world communicating in written English, some things were bound to get left behind whilst others were picked up. Look at lolspeak or whatever else as the slang of the internet: You may not say it to your mother, but it helps you talk easily and quickly with friends.

 

[Mushroomfreak111]

People that replace letters with numbers like "L8er M6" (later mate) or actually leetspeak too bothers me. I also never say lol or omg, I feel so silly every time i write or say that so I don't. I also rarely write brb and afk, tho more frequently than before cause it's seeping into my head if I like it or not...

"I lieks caek" is a very annoying thing to say, and when people ad it to pictures of cats it almost makes me cry cause its not funny its just stupid! Aaaaah, I will kill you all!

 

[mattman106]

I get really pissed off with Ebonics it's just crap and often it must surely be harder to speak than real English?!

 

[David Bray]

Meh, I don't really care. Lolspeech is a bit silly, but it can be used as a tool to point out bad grammer in others or in the pointlessness of a post.
Kitteh cans be left alones nao?

 

[stabnex]

Those people. I kill them in my dreams. I keep a shotgun under the counter, and a flamethrower in the back. People who speak like that in real life deserve to die.

 

[rex922]

wow theres alot of hate here
to be honest i would not get worked up if anyone does it.
i just let people be whatever they want to be

 

[Macgyvercas]

I speak normal English and I expect other people to do it too if the place requires it.

It just seems lazy, fine on online games, but speed is of the essence there.

I mean, I spell everything out and I still usually get first post, so there really is no reason.

I speak normal English as well. Except when I'm tecting, because I have a limited number of characters available

 

[TheRealCJ]

It's really just that it sounds funny when spoken out loud. It's just that you can't really speak on messageboards and imageboards.

Stuff like "I Has -" sounds hilarious when said in a serious voice.

 

[Hazy]

I hardly ever use Internet language, unless I'm too lazy till type out a full word. I even use full sentences when I'm texting someone. Apparently this makes me strange, according to some people.

You're not alone.

I generally only type poorly on purpose when I'm making fun of someone, like so:
"LOL ty1ng lyke dis iz teh cool3st. were so orig'nal n stuf!"

 

[Caliostro]

Does anyone hate phrases like "obvious troll is obvious"

Tautologies aren't necessarily wrong English. They're a form of redundancy, which, like any form of redundancy, while unnecessary can be used to emphasize an idea.

William Shakespeare uses a tautology at least once in Hamlet.

"Lolcats" do make me wanna piss fire into people's eyes...