Intentional misspelling on the Internet.

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― 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

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00004W9KN.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

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

Everyone OTM, plus it implies a false or at least temporarily assumed earnestness, as do the all-caps. So even the hardest bitten, most cynical case can declare a baby panda "CUET" without sacrificing hard points.

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

3b0niXoR

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

DO NOT FEED THE FINNTROLL!

http://www.hogl.dk/pics/finntroll.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

auto-correcting software has a part to play, shurely?

I type 'nda' and 'teh' in Word, and hey! presto i get what i meant all along. So i continue to use 'nda' and 'teh' in other places too, doh!

I'd imagine that in many other languages auto-correct is not quite so well-advanced....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

if only tuomas had been auto-corrected

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost on infanticide c/d thread

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i say WHATEVER, "THOMAS"

― gff, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Laurel's point about assumed earnestness, which would link this to postmodern irony... I.e. part of it's appeal is to make supposedly honest comments while at the same time staying cool and detached. That would also explain why I don't get it, since I'm not a big fan of pomo irony either.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hows that working out for you

― and what, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I just like it because it (mainly the ultimate version - 13375p33K &/or antiorpese) looks funny. It makes me laugh.

― Pashmina, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I like "teh" because it has become such a cliche - that whole "look, ma, I am typing on teh modern INTERWEB!!!" thing.

Other than that, creative misspellings are a way of reinforcing your membership of a certain group, like slang.

Also, I just do not spell very well. This is partly due to mild dyslexia, and partly due to moving between UK and US spelling so much as a child I lost track of how things were spelled at all.

Mine only spelling tick is the use of the archaic "mine" as posessive before words starting with a vowel. I just like the way it looks and sounds.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

what the hell is it about continental europe having to find the deep philosophical underpinnings of some of the greatest stuff in history like sex and people falling over

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

funny cats are a feeling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

what the hell is it about people using ILX to, like, ASK QUESTIONS??

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

it is funny because it makes words look dumb

aka visual puns, sight gags etc

― m coleman, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i am sorry if i am standing in the way of tuomas' self-actualization through trolling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

>:3

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

also ironic comment on post-literate internet culture

― m coleman, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Can you tell me where's the trolling part on this thread?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^ trolling

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i like 'roffle'

I think it's relaive lmao shd be rendered Le Mao.

never gonna happen tho....

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Jess, what is your definition of trolling anyway?

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

if we're going to anthropomorphize cats, why should we pretend that they have a good grasp of spelling or grammar!?

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

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― 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

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/i-has-sockses.jpg

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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