#internet speech

[johnny-neurontin]

This is extremely important!! Protect Section 230!!

[cherriethefruit]

Internet Culture

I love internet culture. I love it so much

Now, what does that mean? When I say Internet Culture I'm referring to the entire language, slang, memes, references, and styles that are commonly used when talking on the internet that are different from talking irl.

Examples

1. We can communicate using memes without text because many memes are used so often you can already assume what the text is

(see: x or even the meme "Loss" x)

2. The grammatical syntax on the internet. It's much different than writing a letter, doing a school assignment, or writing a note. People have adapted language for the internet to help convey tone if you see someone using a. lot. of. periods. that means they're emphasizing the point, Even more than that, there are different ways you talk on the internet depending on the platform: Twitter uses tone indicators, texts sees more abbreviations, tumblr uses formatting (spacing, italics, cursive, etc.)

3. Dont even get me started on vines. God, I love vines, its one the most fascinating things to examine its impact

4. Fuck, dude, I'm running out of examples but i know there is so much more to talk about, i could go on for forever

5. ONLINE FRIENDS! Online friends are wild!!! Just as a concept! You tell me you raised a generation that was taught to fear the internet and they went out and made friends WHILE STILL trying to include some form of identity protection?

6. ONLINE NAMES!!!!! The fact that people have the weirdest fuckig screen names but that is so incredibly normal on the internet that you will meet people that go by names like Tree, Toy, Settings, Fairy, Cass, Lynn, Lyrica, Int, Kiwi, Belit, Poke, Cap, Shumpy, or even fuckin' "dickslayer99" (all real names I have come across) and people don't even bat an eye! And even the ones I included that sound like irl names are literally nowhere close to their irl names, they just chose a name that sounded normal!

I stand by the fact that the best ice breaker on the internet is "How'd you get your name?" because almost everyone has a story

(which is ironic for me to say because i have literally no recollection of where my name comes from but i can somehow tell you how i came up with every single password I've ever used)

Ok I could go on for hours and I'll probably end up making several other posts about everything I love about the internet and growing up on the internet but feel free to add on or tell me stories about any of these things! I just. i really really love internet culture :D

[skautism]

In English really early in the school year we talked about spoken vs written communication in reference to writing letters and emails, and I said it was a lot harder to figure out tone in it (its Extra Hard for me bc heyyy neurological developments gone odd), and I didnt bring it up but its part of why I love internet culture a lot, there are specific ways to type to get tone through easier like how writing like this,,,,, produces the actual ellipsis better than this...... Or using ~this~ for sarcasm or dramatic emphasis and /this/ or *this* for emphasis/italics replacement, and this~ for teasing/flirting, and tAlKiNg LiKe ThIs Is SaRcAsM tOo, and keysmash is the most dynamic way to express emotions, from confusion to angry to upset to a replacement for 😂 or XD, and emoticons can be added for more clarification-

Im dying

I'm /dying/ wtf

Im dyinggggg

Im dying sjdjdjdjdshdh

Im dying xD

Internet speech is a lot easier on a neurodivergent brain than ~professional~ writing is, at least to me

[spectraspecs-writes]

It’s really starting to annoy me that people don’t treat internet speech as a language dialect in it’s own right. It has rules and a grammar just the same as other dialects. Where verbal and in-person communication has gestures, tone, and nonverbal cues, internet text speech has different symbols and text formats to portray a tone or nonverbal cues. 

TyPiNg LiKe THis says something different than typING LIKE THIS which both say something different than typing........like......this..... You can hear my tone change from each model. A tone change that you would actually hear in in-person speech. And using slang! Slang use can change the meaning of a text. If I end a sentence with “bitch” it sounds angry. If I end a sentence with “binch” it sounds like I’m teasing. If I put. Periods. Everywhere. It sounds like I’m emphasizing something. I could probably write a whole paper on the validity of this keysmash

dfhaskdgjhasdgasf

versus this keysmash

weptqertiwuerowqiuterpo

XD, lol, and keysmashing provide different kinds of laughter. “Tea” is different than saying “good point” or “that’s the truth”. Emojis don’t just serve to communicate emotion, but can also be used to signify intent or a reaction. And your choice of whether to use :D or 😃says something different. Your choice of owo or uwu or :3 or >3> says something different. 

It’s becoming clear to me that every time someone talks disparagingly about internet speech, slang, and the like, they’re talking about a language they don’t speak, and probably don’t want to speak. But that doesn’t mean it’s not valid. 

[sanvitheartificer]

random thought of the evening: text allows us to hold two conversations at the same time. I’ve definitely had times where I’m talking with the same person about two things, or three different people about three different things. 

if it was out loud, i’d have to abandon some of those thoughts, but since it’s online i can continue to talk about both.  and i’d be fascinated to see if that had any long-term effects on how we think or the types of conversations that get had online or if it improves communication, overall!  Also!!!! another thought about communication online! I definitely have more ways of communicating tone online than my parents. I can get really nuanced with it -- riSING? or mid-sentence punctuation??? or s p a c e s or lengtheniiiiiiiing, plus things that parents probably could use, like italics or emojis or emoticons.  So -- does that actually benefit me? if you asked me and my parents to communicate some emotionally loaded statement to someone fluent in internet tones, would I be better at it? Would they be less upset? I bet so!

[ferdifz]

via the Instagram page, “Descartes Before the Horse”...

[ferdifz]

Cancel Culture vs. Openness

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant:

Let's not confuse being open to different views with being uncritical.

Being willing to hear dissenting opinions doesn't mean you lack quality standards.

I want to live in a world where people have the freedom to express contrarian thoughts and the freedom to criticize them.

[guruwithin]

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