Intentional misspelling on the Internet.

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Tuomas, one day there will be a university course on said matter and you will have that long desired climatic eureka experience akin to Ron Jeremy popping on Jenna Jameson.

Something like that.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

are? im not a grammar buff either..ask skot if u need english lessons

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The best thing about the English language is how breakable it is.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Then again, we might ask why retarded people are supposed to be funny in the first place?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a bit like oranges. But not really.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't there sum study which said that even if letters are transposed in words in sentences that they are immed. recognized as th actual word,almost as quickly as if they were spelled correctly?

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://frank.harvard.edu/~jason/thoughts/real_genius.gif

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ask the Norweigans who terrorised Finn Kalvik!

I think Tuomas doesn't mean MY type of mispellings...

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh FFS, Tuomas, if you were a real woman, I'd ask you if IT WAS THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
Lighten up (something or yourself), it's HUMOUR. If you really have to explain it, you're actually killing it.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm with Tuomas. I don't see anything remotely funny in this. It's just childish in-joke I'm-in-the-gang stuff.

― underpants of the gods, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i spiloled cooffee on my dixxkciess
i spilled coffee on my Dickies

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh FFS, Tuomas, if you were a real woman, I'd ask you if IT WAS THAT TIME OF THE MONTH.
Lighten up (something or yourself), it's HUMOUR. If you really have to explain it, you're actually killing it.

I'm not talking about specific jokes... The dynamics of humour can and have been studied, I see nothing wrong with that.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i also grew up reading jill johnston in th village voice
so she's partially to blame for some of my problems

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

for capitalization errors anyways

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

What the hell's wrong with childish in-jokey behavior?

*flashes bum* Look FOOL MOON

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I don't think retards themselves are considered funny (anymore), rather than non-retards acting in a retarded way, but also assuming their audience know they aren't really so. So it's the element of surprise and incoherence which is part of it's supposed funniness. Then again, this has become so popular that there's hardly any surprise in it anymore.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i see nath is auditioning for a role in the big budget hollywood version of bjork&pdiddy.gif

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

tho i have to admit she does prove that ESL foreigners from dont have to be clueless herbs

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Nath, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it, just that I don't get it myself, which is why I'm interested in why it works on some folks.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

it is funny because it makes words look dumb

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

LURK MOAR

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Actually, I don't think retards themselves are considered funny (anymore)"...u may be hanging out w th wrong retards....i do agree w th thingy that retarded behave has become some sort of "style" which is sick becuxx the OG tards aint gettin no royalties and shit...and i dont count the Besstie BOyzz or whatever

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh Ethan, I think my brand of English is lost on you. A bit like Tuomas not realizing that retards have been replaced by Finish intellectual students/office works are joke of the day. (Tomorrow it'll be pregnant Belgian twits, I know I know.)

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

It is actually quite hard to explain why it is funny, based on the 'retarded' thing (as opposed to the 'engrish' aspect i.e. 'foreigners trying to write in english but not quite succeeding' which is funny for a number of reasons including farce (in this case the process of somebody trying to accommodate someone else by using their language, meaning well but making what often seem quite basic errors - to the point where you wonder how that mistake could be made intentionally (leading to the ironic/parodic style many of us on ILX indulge in these days) and surreal elements (the distortion and/or subversion of the language itself) and the attitude/tone behind the messages also (using all uppercase for dramatic effect tho the situation is actually quite trivial/mundane etc.).

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

James Joyce and Noize Boarders to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

danbunny: I think the study you're thinking of stated that misspelled words are instantly recognisable as long as the first and last letters are correct (see here...

― peteR, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

lolz at kitty vs. Jean Luc whinging about being turned into an upright hoover.

― kenan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

But seriously, Ethan, how are you? I mean, really.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Tuomas, ~~teh~~ the history of this predates the internet by decades.

for example: this.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

tho that explanation doesn't really factor in hax0r thing of replacing letters with numbers

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

so i was p[artially right..i jysut dont have tyme to get it all correct

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

or indeed M0leswurf

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Google Proof to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

HAY GUYZ

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Words are always waiting for yur tender touch
should u choose to touch them
they wrap their heads in dreams of your
ability to smudge them

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

there may be a practical reason to do with the nature of English itself as a language; that fact that English is multiple origin, and (therefore) has a huge vocab, parastises other languages and has irregular spelling and liberal grammar and word order means that things can be rendered in a similar but incorrect way to the *right* way and still make sense.

e.g. Rachel misspelling her name Archel then thinking or being told "That's a cool name, think I'll stick with it" and its similarities to Arch, archangel ~~ect ect~~ etc etc.

the fact that 'what' can be rendered 'wot' and still be understood.

the huge number of regional accents within the UK probably has a part to play too.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Noam Chomsy to thread

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Stevem's analysis is the best so far... And even if the thing predates the Internet, I think it's become popular only through it, most likely because Internet is the first medium of everyday communication (as opposed to more formal media of newspapers and books) based on writing instead of speech.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

of course while I say that it all predates the internet, the internet has increased its incidence exponentially, coz all of a sudden you had a means for ppl to start communciating with each other by typing rather than speaking or writing en masse and at gr8 speed, so there were gr8r opportunities 2 get things wrong and any opportunity to abbrev. wd b readily pozd upon.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

tuomas dont you listen to rap music?

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Mis-spelling due to pronounciation vs mis-spelling due to bad typing, maybe.

― Sarah, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

No, he just reads your posts. A bit derivative, true, but it's a start!

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

has irregular spelling and liberal grammar and word order means that things can be rendered in a similar but incorrect way to the *right* way and still make sense.

Yeah, this probably one of the reasons it isn't so popular in Finnish, because Finnish has a regular spelling and homonyms are rare. Then again, even in English a lot of the misspellings aren't homonyms, are they?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I have it on v good authority that txting abbrevs like 'c u l8r' don't exist in Polish, which kinda proves my point....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, but it does in Dutch. I don't use it, but every 15 yr old pimply boy does.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

what is the Dutch version?

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Dutch is the closest extant language to English tho (well, actually it's Frisian, but....)

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

tuomas dont you listen to rap music?

Yeah, but in rap it isn't supposed to be humorous, is it? Ebonics is a whole different issue.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

arrrrgh that word

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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i love that, Edward III :D

― bell_labs, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

thanks now I'm gonna be watching that for the next 3 hours

xpost

― Edward III, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

edward if you took that to 4chan you'd be king for like 8 minutes

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, elephantsealpaws. You are no good at layout.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

(nb i went there for the first time ever like last week so i'm at near-tuomas levels of out of it-ness)

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the elephat seal was better

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

nabisco, this is the original context of not-good-with-computers-cat

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it seems sort of quaint now

― cankles, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

T Street, fuckjob!

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLY FUCK THAT THING IS GREAT

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Garage (it's full of shit)

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

39th street way the shit up here

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

*more like SARS

― gff, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

a Cilantro or something, lol

― WilliamC, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

the elephat seal was better

yeah but now we know newspaper cat is an ilxor

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

goons goons goons

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

wonder what she posts as

― Edward III, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

marissa

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahah TREES AND SHIT. That thing is great!

― Trayce, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~dbailey/gallery/image/elephant.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

This thread has brightened my day.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

walruses are far more regal than elephant seals:

http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/3802/11140/f/46524-Walrus-Attack-0.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42171000/jpg/_42171890_sealion_getty_416.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha. Looks like somebody farted in the tub.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost)

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

that walrus is clearly going to murder those ppls

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I would like to see walrus (tub farter) wearing an ascot.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Growing Up Walrus is my favorite thing Animal Planet has ever aired.

Fuck a shark week, I want walrus week.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

rare photo of domesticaled baby walrus:

http://www.strawberrybonkers.com/walrus.jpg

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/43/89768504_42fe9e0ab2_m.jpg

"I SAID I WANTED A BURRITO, NONE OF THIS SCHOOLCHILDREN BULLSHIT."

― kingfish, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Wilford Brimley Walrus. My favorite kind.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/7788/736657112ltf5.gif

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://lolwtfbbq.tripod.com/o_rly/thumbnails/600x450/aidsrly.jpg

― ken c, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Can I just throw a manatee into the elephant seal / walrus debate?

http://www.visitbradenton-manatee.com/images/picture_bradenton.jpg

― ailsa, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I heart Edward's rubbish-at-layout editor elephant seal. He rules the internet.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/they-be-stealing.jpg

― kingfish, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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