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At some point in the past someone said "the encroachment of IRCspeak into everyday English is a bad moon rising" :) I kinda agree. But then again I do find it
by ErrantX 15y ago
At some point in the past someone said "the encroachment of IRCspeak into everyday English is a bad moon rising" :)
I kinda agree. But then again I do find it has utility; people can use it to express emotion, which previously has been a sticking point for purely textual communications. Consider:
And then they all died! #upset #crying
versus:
And then they call died! #hellyeah
I quite like this sort of hacking.
- bitwize 15y agoAt some point in the past someone said "the encroachment of IRCspeak into everyday English is a bad moon rising" :) It was, and for that reason people who say "lol", or use it in blog posts, are difficult for me to take seriously.
- tomflack 15y agoI've always read "lol" as a sign that they don't actually want you to take what they're saying too seriously.
- sopooneo 15y agoI am always disheartened by the notion that anything beyond text is needed to express emotion or sarcasm. That's what writing is. By properly combining words, good writers can express almost anything, and more fully than with emoticons or tags. However, the example you give is dark humor, so you win me over there.
- basugasubaku 15y agoI like this interview with Nabokov in 1969. Q: How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past? Nabokov: I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile – some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.
- ErrantX 15y agoTrue. On the other hand most people are somewhere in the spectrum between bad and almost-good writers. And even the best writers, when writing quickly in an immediate medium like the internet, can get it wrong. I think that is the key; when interacting socially there is no need to make sure your writing is top notch and expresses your emotions adequately. You just stick a smilie on :) Consider a real-life conversation. You wouldn't pause for several minutes to make sure the next sentence properly conveyed what you wanted to say. But you might smile and wink at the end of a put-down to show it was a joke.