Poll: Internet language... do you keep up with it?

[Neonbob]

No. I express myself in the same manner on the internet as I do in real life.
What that means is that I do not use anything that gets abbreviated, or made into acronyms online.
It requires more effort, yes, but I hate when people use numbers for words/letters, or otherwise abuse the language I use.

I don't see many people running around town saying 'Lol, he r epock failz.'

And that is a good thing. I'm busy enough with my hate list. I don't need more people to target.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I dont usually use internet speech. Well, not much.

 

[Cama Zots]

fo sho I keep up.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

Also, does /B/ mean 4chan?

It does not.

It merely implies it.

Also, I keep up on it, but don't use it myself.

Yes, omg YES! DON'T EVER SAY THAT NAME AGAIN!

its the abbreviation for the random thread on 4chan and virtually every other chan

so it means random

I see now.

 

[Azaradel]

I couldn't feel less forced to learn the "internet language" that has evolved in the mucky pits of forums with an average IQ level of a bunch of lampshades.

However, being an online gamer and having online gamer friends (whos' IQ levels could also probably be successfully compared to abovementioned lampshades), I get it thrown into my face whenever I decide to pretend not to be a sociophobic psychopath, with fear of any kind of human contact - even as limited as the casual conversations sprouting while stomping on some blood elf's face.

 

[Matronadena]

personally don't care...in general you pick up on some of the definitions of new phrases or words easily enough...when it comes down to the leet and all that I tend to assume its coming from a child and ignore it

 

[Nerdfury]

I have named my fists Spelling and Grammar, and with their power I rain down twin blows of righteous fury!

 

[HonorableChairman]

I try to understand it, but don't use it.

Also, does /B/ mean 4chan?

/b/ is the most popular and infamous board on 4chan, and sadly, the one that people assume all of the boards on 4chan are like. Tread lightly.

And I can generally gather what someone is saying when they use it, but I don't use much of it myself. Similar to my stance on most regional slang.

 

[khaimera]

what a coincidence becuase i just looked up what FTW meant. I had always wondered but never cared enough to look it up before. So that means that I don't use internet slang much, but I am curious. I've noticed that there isn't much slang used on escapist. Thats becuase we are an intelligent bunch. Verbal Conquistadors as I like to call it.

 

[captainwolfos]

I tend to pick up on it fairly quickly for some reason. I never use it because it annoys the hell out of me, but I pick it up because most other people I know use it.

If I don't know, well, that's what urban dictionary's for.

 

[Low Key]

I know it, but I don't like to use it. Some of it is pretty annoying.

 

[Xyphon]

I keep up with it naturally, but when people start using fucking leet, I stop reading. I can understand it (Dear God I need to get laid), but I just don't feel like putting my brain through the punishment.

Edit: The only text talk I use is lol and lmfao . That's all.

 

[DazZ.]

Don't tend to use it but I understand it.

I enjoy most of it, but I highly enjoy conkers, boxes and tweezers aswell.

 

[A random person]

I learn some terms in the process of random browsing, but not actively no.

 

[The Political Gamer]

i Iz hUt 0n T3h iNt3Rn3tZ Sp3@k

Translation: I is hot on the internet speak

Real translation: I try to stay up-to-date with the latest lingo that the world wide web produces.

 

[neoontime]

What does DX MEAN

 

[similar.squirrel]

Where does it stem from?
Just misspellings that become part of the idiom, or some kind of tribal dialect that began in the early days of the internet?

 

[General Ken8]

I don't much care for it, but I end up understanding it all.

Same here
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. THERE IS NO CHANCE FOR SURVIVAL MAKE YOUR TIME.
I r guy, who gon t33ch you less0n
Lotsa Spaghetti!

Yeah, i have problems
(And my avatar is a character from a DOS game which has been pooped to death, thought i'd include that)

 

[The_Echo]

It's usually not hard to pick up. I never use it, the same way I never use "text talk" (unless I want to save credit by putting as much into a single text as possible).

I barely text at all, and when I do it's about one sentence of full English. Or one word. Shortening words isn't for me.

I haven't kept up with this so-called "Internet language" since I first encountered the Internet, and I still understand it all. But I'm weird like that.

 

[sln333]

I "tend not to care" but after spending a lot of time on internet forums I lurn about teh hotness!! learn any new internet language. I only use the basics when chatting like lol.