In which I attempt to chase away the pains of the working week with netspeak

[dolorous_ett]

Courtesy of the AOLer Translator

O HAI 

ONA THNG I LUV ABOUT TEH INTARNET SI AL DA FUNY WORDS AND SLANG TAHT PAOPLE UES!1!!1!1 OMG LOL THNGS LIEK O RLEY AND O WOES AND AL TAHT STUF - I DONT UES THEM TAHT MUCH BUT THEY GIEV ME GRAAT PL3ASUR3

SO!!1!1!1 - WUT UR FAVOURIET INTERNET WORD OR AXPRESION???!?!?? WTF OR SI THEYRE SOM3THNG U H8 ?!?!!! OMG WTF LOL

 
(In case any of that wasn't entirely clear, I'm collecting people's favourite words or expressions from the Internet - preferably words you'd only see here, not spoken aloud).

Comments

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

I love netspeak and l33t when it's used for humor. It seriously cracks me up and I can chuckle for hours over a well-use "teh", "Interweb", "hai thar".

"OMG", "LOL" and "WTF" are absolutely essential to my ability to communicate meaningfully and cleverly online. I can't imagine life without them.

My absolute favorite though is "pr0n". :D

Y HALO THAR PNEZWOODZ LOL WTF

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Great, aren't they?

(I'd always assumed that pr0n was just to get round censors - but is it actually l33t?)

[ignipes.livejournal.com]

I was just talking about FTW! with somebody the other day, and how we both initially thought it stood for "fuck the what!" before learning that it actually means "for the win!" I still secretly think of it meaning the first thing in my mind, though. FTW!

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

oooh this oen is difficult. i've hardl yever seen it used seriously (srsly?0 as in real net chatters talking liek that and meanign it. so most of the time it was tongue in cheek but at some point it still made me a bitallergic.
but i liek ZOMG
which apparently came aboutwhen people where too excited to just hold the shift key. adnthere's aljfdsasl;jfsldfa; or somethign alogn those lines which some of my flist use i nreactio nto a killer of a jjoke or something lie kan anecdote that makes them go into hysterics.

[lyras.livejournal.com]

KTHANKSBAI!

I like other people's suggestions, too. Heh, clearly netspeak has more of a hold on me than I realised.

KTHANKSBAI!

Re: Y HALO THAR PNEZWOODZ LOL WTF

[swythyv.livejournal.com]

Actually "pr0n" predates l33t, but as it was definitely proto-geek-speak (dyslexics, the lot of them), l33t be not proud. ;D then.

[swythyv.livejournal.com]

I've grown very fond of "lolcat" - particularly the favorite "I'm n Ur [noun] [verb]n Ur [object]."

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

In that case, have you read "Have His Carcasse" by Dorothy L. Sayers, retold in lolcats by nineveh_uk?

http://nineveh-uk.livejournal.com/37842.html

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Brilliant - I've been wondering what FTW meant for ages... like you, I couldn't imagine it not including the F-word!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Agreed - what's not to love about ZOMG?

The A-one is a bit stranger - I can't quite figure out where that comes from...

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

KTHANKS!

It's good, isn't it? I've seen owl-macros of it too..

Re: Y HALO THAR PNEZWOODZ LOL WTF

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

*iz enlightened*

Thanks!

[mafdet.livejournal.com]

I am partial to "w00t", myself.

OMGWTFBBQ!

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

I cannot live without "DO NOT WANT!", and many other lolspeaks.

I keep catching myself saying "Ohmgee" to customers at work, which kind of undermines my ability to speak to them authoritatively about their haemorrhoids.

[lyras.livejournal.com]

And I spent it wrong - how terribly uncool and grown-up of me. :)

[aerama.livejournal.com]

I sekritly like any version of FAIL, as in EPIC FAIL - and obviously conscious misspellings of poor words. :-)

And I'm still trying to work in a "blah blah blah whatevercakes" into conversation but so far I've lacked the opportunity.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

In that case, I hope you have many occasions to say w00t this year!

Re: OMGWTFBBQ!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

(annoyingly, I've just ditched my T'pol OMGWTFBBQ icon in favour of this one...)

DO NOT WANT is definitely becoming a favourite. Just wish I didn't feel called upon to use it quite so much...

I keep catching myself saying "Ohmgee" to customers at work, which kind of undermines my ability to speak to them authoritatively about their haemorrhoids.

LOL

Some things are possibly better left in netspeak. Whispering "Oh my God! Haemorrhoids! Yuck!" doesn't strike me as that authoritative either... *g*

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

FAIL is good. Also MADE OF FAIL.

I've not heard "blah blah blah whatevercakes" yet - plainly I'm falling even further behind the times...

[aerama.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that came from the tv show Seinfeld? I cannot remember. I don't think I ever heard it firsthand, just seen it. Crazy times!

"MADE OF FAIL" is good and I feel like I should make it into a stamp.

BTW I love your raven theme so much that I had a dream I changed mine to the same thing - and then mourned the loss of my blue Triangles. Me & change = not so good.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Your blue triangles are very you.

You might have fun checking out cute_moodthemes, where I got the ravens from, though - there are several others, including a crane series, that I like just as much.

I don't think I should be allowed a MADE OF FAIL stamper, because then I'd NEVER STOP STAMPING!

[aerama.livejournal.com]

I suddenly think you should have that stamper, and pronto. The world would be a better (if inky) place.

Aww! I do love my blue triangles. I am tempted sometimes to 'dress them up' - pink triangles, for instance. Or triangles with capes.

[infiniteviking]

*pops into the conversation late* I've always thought of ASDFHKAJS and its many variations as "keyboard mash of excitement".

[infiniteviking]

I have become quite partial to 't3h???' but am not sure if it counts now, because I've spoken it aloud any number of times. XD

Stage directions are also good. *snickers, wondering if you've seen the Lolcat Bible yet*

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

I get it! Just run your finger along the keyboard when the Internet excitement gets too much! ASDDFGHHJK... plainly it's harder than it looks!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

I have become quite partial to 't3h???' but am not sure if it counts now, because I've spoken it aloud any number of times. XD

You've said "t3h???" aloud? How on earth do you pronounce it?

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

And I've seen bits of the Lolcat Bible - if you mean the Ceiling Cat one! Good, isn't it?

[infiniteviking]

In tones of astonishment (excitement/outrage optional): TEH!!

And yep, that's the one. I discovered it by accident and laughed for hours.