Teen Speak and Pajamas
Am I the only one who thinks tween speak is the most annoying thing ever? I hate acronym speak and I don’t like my words abbreviated. While I caved for a moment, I don’t care how cute your wet kitten is I’m still going to hate the “lolcats” phenomenon.
I wish it ended there, but when I logged into Flickr yesterday I saw this:
Flickr, why have you forsaken me? I don’t want to learn lolspeak. I want to avoid it at all cost!
And then I logged into the website for my new media class and found that part of my assignment was to use emoticons in my paper. I give up. Tween speak is taking over not just the Internet, but the world.
P.S. Because there was so much concern over my pajamas in the comments and emails yesterday, here is a picture of them:
SEE, sometimes I do wear pants at home. The rules of my apartment clearly state they must be comfy, pink and covered in pugs.
Comments
Dude. I’m guessing that those are supposed to be pink dog bones that the pugs are sitting on, but um, they look like something else.
I think those bones are femurs or thigh bones, but I don’t know from which animal. Don’t worry, they don’t look human.
Does this mean you are going to stop typing “laugh” and start typing “lol”? It will totally make my day if you do! I will be all OMG! LMAO! 🙂
I agree wholeheartedly. There is nothing more annoying than teen-speak. I teach middle school, and I literally want to set half the essays I get on fire because some of my students think it appropriate to use “u” and “becuz” and “I was all ‘kthxbai'” in their essays. I’m getting angry just thinking about it.
Having to use emoticons in a paper gives you a free pass to drop that class.
Seriously. Ian’s nephew is that tween age, and I simply can’t stand reading his textual communications. Somebody teach these kids to read and write, please! (It’s one thing if people do know better. Lolcats don’t bother me for that reason, they are supposed to be funny. But I seriously think texting is impairing our kids. Idiocracy, here we come!)
Clearly, you can’t has cheezburger.
It’s NOT Tweenspeak.. it’s the language of the internets.
RTFM! OMGWTFBBQ!
Does anyone know why “ai” replaced the long “i” in this language?
Here, if it makes you feel better, Lincoln might have invented the emoticon:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/hfo-emoticon/
Dude… those dogs are totally standing on penises. (or is it peni?) Weird. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “If you give a dog a bone…”
Pugs on Bones…. I should have guessed that!!! Disney…WTF was I thinking???
Did they have one wif german shepherds? Want one for our bff nights – looks comfy
Some pepl don’t want to ‘ talk pretty some day.’ ‘Smart kids…not smart bombs.’
OMG- you have it better you little mormon slut– my family is only after a roman catholic slut…— BTW they can suck my left tit. I’m not sure it they know that but they should. My mother will now have to pay many debts she incurred as a child. AND BTW NO SHE WON’T!!! You’re a freak show!!!
get lost its gauche
That’s WHITE hot!
BTW NEVER NEVER DRINK and post– I love you Sarah and NEVER meant anything derogatory! WTF?