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⌈ Secret Post #3252 ⌋

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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

Image: A cat lying down in a scratching post, looking grumpy/unimpressed. It's surrounded by the words "Lolspeak", "Text Speak", "Abbreviations", "Emoticons", and "Memes".

Text: Sometimes I feel like an old fart in fandom because I don't like/use/understand the various writing shorthands people use online.

...I'm 27. This seems a bit young to be wanting people to get off my lawn.

(Picture and font chosen for irony, and because I love secrets that have kitties in them.)

[(Anonymous)]

IDK I am older then you and they are pretty easy to pick up and put in your language.

I will admit though that when certain words and abbreviations first start popping up I head over to urban dictionary and scratch my head.

The worse is when an abbreviation has multiple meanings though and even the young people don't agree on what it means.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm 27 too and I have urban dictionary on standby. There are some that I forget over and over, not to mention the ones that have separate meanings. You would not believe how long it took me to figure out OTL. After that I just started going to Urban Dictionary on the regular.

[elaminator]

You would not believe how long it took me to figure out OTL

I would because I had to google it.

Wow, internet. That seems random as fuck.

[dahli]

Eh don't feel bad about it, OP. I think internet speak is easy once you get the hang of it, but sometimes there are people who really abuse it and it ends up looking ridiculous.

Kinda unrelated but you reminded me of that episode on CSI where they where trying to catch a teenager via pretending to be another teenager and using 9000 acronyms and it ended up looking rather silly. :P No1 spks lk ths. There's using acronyms and then there's abusing them.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I understand that feeling. I use a few abbreviations here and there sometimes ("LOL" and things of that sort), but for the most part I'm not big on that stuff, either. For me it isn't even so much being annoyed that others use that sort of chat speak regularly (though I do agree that some can go a little overboard)-you do you, and all that. In my case it's more that I just personally always feel...silly...typing like that. It's one of those things that if other people do it, it seems natural and normal, but if I do it, it would automatically look uncool and dorky :p.

[elaminator]

Same. I use certain abbreviations all the time (IDK, lol, mte), but all in all I prefer typing out words.

I don't think a few abbreviations are bad and net-speak in itself isn't something I have a problem with, but when someone uses it so heavily that I can't tell what they're trying to say, I don't like it.

Some people use them constantly in texts. So much hate. (Typed that out for your benefit!)

OP

[(Anonymous)]

"I just personally always feel...silly...typing like that. It's one of those things that if other people do it, it seems natural and normal, but if I do it, it would automatically look uncool and dorky :p. "

Yeah, that's how I feel about a lot of it. I just physically can't bring myself to type some of that stuff. Like, I've never been able to type the shorthand for "National Novel Writing Month". It just looks and sounds so much more clunky, even if it saves me a few keystrokes.

Hmm...I've always been pretty good at spelling and grammar. I wonder if that's related to my reluctance to use online slang; it leads to an ingrained feeling that I'm, as the saying goes, "Doing it wrong".

[diet_poison]

Yeah, I'd say that's a bit young...

I'm 25 and I use all of those things, except text speak which I don't like.

[kallanda_lee]

I don't think it's an age thing only. Honestly I hated stupid abbreviations even when I was 17, and while I might use some of them, I really hate if a text is just full off them.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's about age, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Funnily enough, some people would say 27 is too old for fandom. I disagree, but of course I'm 37 so my view is a tad biased. I think I get most of the abbreviations? But I've never liked textspeak and I never will.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not too young. That's when it starts happening.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think abbreviations have gotten worse in the last few years. I think it's plateaued since the early 2000's, when cell phones were common, but before phones had a full QWERTY pad.

It's not like fandom hasn't used abbreviations for ages that sound incomprehensable to people unfamiliar with them. "36k wip destiel hs au on ao3" to use an example from tumblr. http://shadowen.tumblr.com/post/97390931258/all-the-ships-from-all-the-shows

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha I actually understand that. Fandom is love. Fandom is life.

...Seriously, though, so true. If I wasn't in fandom I'd be like, "What is this foreign language that thouth speakth?"

[(Anonymous)]

I tried Omegle once a few years ago and never went back. They kept opening with some combination of letters I didn't understand, couldn't find a translation for online, and the two people I tried asking left the conversation immediately.

The rest left the conversation after a few lines in which I used full sentences and they used what I assume was a mix of site specific jargon and text-speak.

[(Anonymous)]

Omegle has it's own abbreviations that once you get to know, you learn quickly.

a/s/l is age/sex/location.

I'm sorry your conversation partners left so quickly. Hopefully a future encounter will involve someone more patient.

[(Anonymous)]

That font is "ironic"? o_O

[(Anonymous)]

I don't get the irony either. Does anyone know the font?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Semi-ironic. It's "Impact" font, the font most often used for LOLcats and LOLspeak. It was a very feeble joke on my part.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like it's the opposite, that common abbreviations like AFAIK, IIRC and IM(H)O aren't used anymore, so using them dates me.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. The only one of those I have seen recently is IMO, but the honest has been dropped.

The good news is abbreviations don't sound as dated as other, spoken slang like dope or groovey.

[(Anonymous)]

so start using them

live a little

[(Anonymous)]

If you don't like using textspeak, how is using textspeak "living a little"? Or do you not understand what that phrase generally means?