"Lolspeak" drives me nuts

[RobiLee]

I say go Jess! I'm with you on this one. It also drives me nuts. I find it hard to follow. Maybe its my age. I don't know. All I know is that it just drives me crazy. I really don't understand the whole thing and sometimes i find it hard to follow. I know we have talked about if for awhile but I'm so glad that you spoke up and said something. Way to go, Jess!

[Pam]

Agree totally! The only ones who should be speaking like this are Phred and Chopper!

[lizbud]

Agree totally! The only ones who should be speaking like this are Phred and Chopper!

I never really run into it much, but I don't frequent blogs,U tube,etc..

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Fox news ran a report Friday about how the text shorts like u for you and " r u" for "are you" are being used by students in reports and stuff. If I were a teacher, they would be warned once then made to do the papers over and marked down a grade point. People are just getting so lazy!

[chocolatepuppy]

Some of that 'speak' that I'm unable to translate easily, I just give up.

[K9soul]

It's actually even kinda different from Phred's "dawg talk" too. It does seem to kinda mingle the texting talk in with it to a degree, but also just deliberate misspellings such as "bai" for bye, "hai" for hi.

I found this "guide" to lolspeak:

Step one: Think of something to say.

Step two: “Engrish” it.

1) Mis-decline verbs, especially misuse the verb “to be”
2) Misuse gerunds
3) Overuse prepositional phrases
4) Blatant rearrangement of syntax
5) Incorrect plurals and past-tense verbs
6) “noun” your adjectives. (For instance, the adjective “blue” can become the noun “blueness”)
7) Improper pronouns
8 ) Drop the articles (”a”, “and”, “the”) in favor of adding “-age” to the end of a noun
9) Use “younger” words (”kitty” versus “cat”, “fuzzy” versus “furry”, etc.)
10) Use the word “with” inappropriately.
11) If you really can’t wrap your head around the concepts behind “Engrish”, try this: Go to babelfish.altavista.com, type your desired comment in, hit “english-to-Japanese”, then re-translate back to English. You have to be able to view special characters (the kanji). If you can’t get that to work, try translating to a different, european-text language, like German.

Step Three: Misspell words

Example:

Normal speak
“The cat has a bow on his head!”

Lolspeak
“Kitteh gots bowage on hims hedz!”


Here is also a lolspeak wiki page... http://speaklolspeak.com/?t=anon

I have seen lolspeak popping up more and more on PT, maybe some lolspeakers here could explain it better

[Lady's Human]

No need to explain it, when I see it I just move on.

If it's not important enough for the poster to spell and use proper grammar, it's not important enough for me to read. (Note.....this is specifically directed at "leetspeak" users, and NOT directed at people who do not speak or write English as a native language.)

[Catsnclay]

No need to explain it, when I see it I just move on.

If it's not important enough for the poster to spell and use proper grammar, it's not important enough for me to read. (Note.....this is specifically directed at "leetspeak" users, and NOT directed at people who do not speak or write English as a native language.)

I can't agree more!

My delete button is getting a LOT of use lately!!

If you can't use the language correctly, then don't use it at all!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Agree totally! The only ones who should be speaking like this are Phred and Chopper!

Thanks for the big laugh, Pam!!!

I agree totally. Our future generations won't be able to correctly say or spell the simplest of words. It might be my age too but I think it's nothing but harmful

Kay: I didn't see your signature until you pointed it out. I have to say, I can figure it out, now that you bring it up I'm 100 years old and it shows.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

You know what? It reminds me of baby talk!
Woogy woogy woo!!!

[RICHARD]

Woogy woogy woo!!!

Pinch my cheeks, baby?

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Any stupid product that pluralizes with a "Z".

Streetz, boyz, shoez....learn how to spell morons!

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Sorry to turn this into a political thread.....

I was listening to the reverend gone wild, J. Wright and he was making fun of
The Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson and the way they spoke. He was making fun of their accents and followed the examples by saying that they weren't "speaking right".

I had a laugh about that because I ABSOLUTELY ABHOR when kids mangle simple sentences. It bugs me even more when I see it legitimatized on my TV when I have the sound down and the captions running.

Wright is a supposedly educated man that gots to get it together for sermonizing and the like, Y'all dig?

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Oh and I really can't stand it when people bastardize a saying.

Example?

We got our heads against the wall and have to win the next game.

[shepgirl]

I'm with Richard on this one. Bad enough when you're reading a post with every third word mispelled, but that "new" language drives me nuts. Typo errors do occur and I can overlook that, but when the spelling and grammar is wrong through the whole thing it drives me nuts, not to mention slowing down my reading to see what is meant.
I see it in college kids all the time...they just can't spell today.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

[QUOTE=RICHARD]Pinch my cheeks, baby?

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Sure!!! Um, which ones?

[Cincy'sMom]

I have too hard of a time trying to type correctly as it is, to even bother trying to type things incorrectly!!! My fingers just don't work as fast as my mind and I can never quite hit the space bar in the right order...and yes, I had to make a few corrections just to get that short statement out!!!

[RICHARD]

[QUOTE=momoffuzzyfaces]

Pinch my cheeks, baby?

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Sure!!! Um, which ones?

Behave!

U R 2 much!