"Lolspeak" drives me nuts

[Taz_Zoee]

I agree with you. I think this way of "talking" started with texting. So you didn't have to type out all the letters on the phone. But people are now using it everywhere. I don't even use it while texting, except the LOL part. I get texts from my niece and it takes a minute to understand what she is saying.

[kuhio98]

Drives me nuts too. Seems most people think it's cute and funny, but I just think it's dumb. (I also think the pets on icancheezeburger are better spellers than their families who post their photos).

[K9soul]

It isn't so much acronyms, like LOL or ROFL etc. It's things like "I iz hungry" and "I takez ur cake"

I do know that texting kinda started its own type of typing with shortened words, letters and numbers though. Which I don't mind being used when texting, understandable to not have to key in so much, and I don't mind acronyms used.

[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

[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.

[K9karen]

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

Ain't that the troof? (sorry couldn't resist)

[finn's mom]

I don't fret over it, it doesn't drive me bananas...but I don't like it, either. I'm not a fan of the pet speak or baby talk, either. I find myself skipping those posts for the most part.

I think it's funny on the silly cat photos, but that's about it.

I text all the time, but I still use proper grammar, hahaha. I don't think I've ever used LOL. <-- Except for maybe right then.

[K9soul]

By the way, the term "lolspeak" that is actually what it has come to be called. It has nothing to do with acronyms, LOL and IMO for example. The icanhascheezburger site called their photos lolcats. And thus the way of speaking there became called lolspeak.