English language

[Thistle]

Do you think that the english language will be influenced with "chatroom slang" like lol brb and other things?

 

[Gedrin]

It already has influenced our language, for instance some people use woot out loud as an exclamation. Sometimes I even hear the occasinal LOL (the sounded out abbreviation) from people. In fact if I am leaving my room, or my lab station for a few minutes I will even scroll brb on a piece of paper to let people know I won't be gone for long.

 

[Thistle]

I have noticed this also, do you think that there will be "official" abbreviations?(sp?)

 

[-Sh1Ft-]

They won't be offical, but they will be commenly used and understood.

 

[Thistle]

Added to the dictionary perhaps?

 

[cxoli]

I think it would be kind of frightening for them to actually be put in the dictionary....I can understand using abbreviations when typing since it's faster, but in real life, I'm not sure. It's fun to yell actualy internet words like "woot" or "pwned" every once in a while, but spelling out things like "lol," "jk," "omg," etc. just sounds awkward and kind of dumb. But yeah, I'm guessing that one day there will be even more of that than there is now :/

 

[jd-inflames]

I don't think I have heard people say "el oh el" or "oh em gee double-u tee eff"...I have heard people say nub and pwned and woot...I don't think this will be added...it's just slang afterall. Notice how long it took the word "Aint" to get in the dictionary?

 

[Lights]

I call people nubs and say owned. However, I cant bring myself to say 'pwned' in public.. too much.
Maybe one day, when my geekness is fully released.

 

[Pureblade]

I say woot all the time. Also, whenever someone is boring me, I mumble to myself, "Ess-te-eff-you." (STFU)

 

[-Sh1Ft-]

They addded "Doh" to the dictionary i belive, so i think LoL is next.

 

[_Ace]

In real life (I live in Spain and I use English abreviations lol) I use...
LOL as LAWL
ROFL as ROFFLE
Good game
Pwnt (poont)
ess tee eff you
gee tee eff oh
and geegeenoree lmao

 

[Arkillo]

I just say shit like "get the **** out" or "shut the **** up"

I'm not a retard and shorten it, although I hear people doing it all the time at my school.