Intentional misspelling on the Internet.

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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

cats is cuet! and they cumbine wurds like innasent childs. awwwww, kiddens!

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

2nd:dyslexia

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the way they μ

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Jess, what is your definition of trolling anyway?

from Europe

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Accusations of trolling are part of the same game as intentional misspellings. The latter says "I'm in the gang"; the former says "you're not in the gang".

― underpants of the gods, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

INTENSHUNAL MISSPELLINS IS LIEK BABYS TALK

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Formatting help

For entities: just give up.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I R TNY KITN is really unfunny tho. haet it.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/beconfidentatreyurp8.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

lol hi dere

― g-kit, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, dyslexia and autocorrect and fast typing is a different thing than doing this intentionally for a comic effect.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

A = dyslexia and autocorrect and fast typing

B = doing this intentionally for a comic effect

A enables, facilitates, encourages B

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes to the fun linguistic ingenuity! It's children's-level manipulation of a language with tons of its own ambiguities and nonsensicalities. There's a lot of joy in it, and purporseful relaxing of sometimes fairly strict community standards of conduct (ie the one-upsmanship and zings and sarcasm etc).

― Laurel, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

b-but I R TNY KITN gdmit

― Alan, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

― danbunny, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:39 (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

How cute. I really want to pinch your cheeks, Jess, but, alas, you lost all that weight. Let me know when it's back on and I'll cuddle you senseless.

Tuomas, in regard to trolling, he's looking too much away from him instead of doing introspection. If only he could, then he'd be OTM. It's like every typical American: they can't intellectualize.

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/corncob.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/alanapost/HAPPYCAT/NaziHappyCat.png

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

things like 'waht' and 'hi dere' just remind me of Dr Nick Riviera so good on that basis alone.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/boldfatty.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

A enables, facilitates, encourages B

No doubt, but the dynamics of A are far easier to explain than those of B, which is why I was interested in the latter. And this thread has indeed offered many good explanations for B.

― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

My friend just mailed me a pic of her dead cat. It's staying with her until she buries it. :-(

― nathalie, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"The first printed examples of O.K. can be found in the Boston newspapers of 1839 as part of a broader fad of forming and employing acronyms and initialisms, many of them barbarous. Other examples at the time included G.T.T. for "gone to Texas" and K.Y. for "know yuse". The general fad may have existed in spoken or informal written American English for a decade or more before its appearance in newspapers. O.K. was intended as a misspelling of "all correct"; in the first few years it was often published with this gloss. (Note that gloss indicates the spread of a new word.) The gloss was sometimes varied with degraded spelling such as "Oll Korrect" or even "Ole Kurreck". Deliberate word play was associated with the acronym fad and was a yet broader contemporary American fad. In this first phase, O.K. was spread with the acronym fad from Boston to other American cities."

― pretzel walrus, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/ewok.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Text is now conversational. In this medium, the written word acts more like the spoken word. People are likely to try to do the same things with text that they do with speech, including producing a unique voice, adopting slang, and incorporating common affectations of their peers as a part of socialization, identifying with a group.

But you can't do things with text that you can do with speech, because you can't change pitch or timbre, roundness or articulation. In text you have a limited range of vowels and vowel combinations, but the human voice is capable of producing over one thousand different vowel sounds.

So you end up fucking around with what's available on the keyboard to accomplish what you've learned to do in conversation, including all of the little shortcuts and signs. You learn from reading and imitating others as much as you learn form common accidents that amuse.

Also, cat pictures are funny.

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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