Poll: Your opinion on text language in real life?

[Daniel Cygnus]

I was in a pet store, and this cheerleader-type girl starts screaming OMG, WTF?! THAT SNAKE IS EATING THAT MOUSE! Keep in mind she was spelling each shameful acronym out. Not only did this send me into a rage beyond all rage, it made me seriously wonder if she'd ever been in an elementary level science class.

Also, on a slight tangent, text-speak should be banned from phones. Message length limits are no longer ridiculously small, so you can actually spell out words and maybe even use...punctuation! (GASP!)

 

[Galenor]

My friend often says "lol" out loud at things. It drives me up the wall!

 

[Daye.04]

i just overuse smileys to show im extra friendly with a hint of crazy

lol i noticed that, most of the time people who overuse smilys have a picture of that girl as their avatar, but with blue hair (i hope I'm not making a ballbag of myself and that blonde one is acually the blue one)

Woah! Seriously? You can't track down who's overusing it and who's not by looking at their avatar? Neat. And those who don't overuse it in forums, just in msn. They have a picture of a really good-looking guy, with a wierd skin-color, right?

 

[xxcloud417xx]

Worst. Fad. Ever.

this.

 

[RAWKSTAR]

Once I said 'LOL' in a convo... I was rather angry at myself and swore never to do that again.

And that's why I have cut out my tongue.

 

[spotter-acus]

i only use lol on rare accasion in real life, and thats if it's mildly amusing. it's acceptable if typed as a quick comment, but i know people who use the whole shebang, and it really gets on my nerves.

 

[cainx10a]

As from today, I won't use lol, instead, I will laugh heartily ... hahahahehehhehehihihihihohohohohohhahahahahehehehehehhhhihihihohohoho.

Oops, fact is I don't laugh in real life much so, a 'lol' will suffice in a conversation to express that I thought what the other party said was funny, even if it's not really funny.

 

[Vision of Division]

those people should be crucified from rome to berlin..

upside down...

on fire...

castrated...

no, that's it

 

[Oopsie]

Summary executions for whomever tries that in my dictatorship.

 

[timmytom1]

I use it if i`m quoting something i saw on a forum , if not it`s just pointless

 

[Skeleon]

That's like saying e...t...c... instead of et cetera.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I've witnessed it (both LOL and etc) a few times and either burst out laughing or rolled my eyes.

 

[Martymer]

I've used such language, but only in an ironic manner. Like, no one -- absolutely no one -- actually laughs when they type "LOL". Crack a smile and it's "OMFG!!!ROFLMAO!!!11111!!1!ST0P 1T 1M FUK1NG DY1NG H3R3!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!1111!H0LY SH1TZORZ!!11!!!" or something... So, if a really bad joke fails to make me laugh, I might actually say "lol" or possibly "rofl". Not "ell-oh-ell" or "ar-oh-eff-ell", though. Well, perhaps, if I wanted to be *extremely* sarcastic. But I certainly do hate it when people use these "words" seriously, as well as "epic fail", "internets" (why plural?), and all that crap.

This is just a fad, though. It's popular among young people today, and anything popular among young people will be ridiculed by the same people a few years later. Then some new fad that's even worse comes along. A while back, here in Sweden, it was popular to throw in Turkish words every now and then. You know, because minorities are cool. Like in America, where (as so perfectly demonstrated by Dave Chapelle (sp?)) white guys think it's cool to be mistaken for black. This trend seems to be dying, though. Now it's becomming more and more like, "Dude, you're white... just... don't..."

To conclude... "Young people today... (are absolutely terrible in every way imaginable!)..." - Aristotle.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Worst. Fad. Ever.

agree

It is the most annoying thing ever.

I text constantly and manage not only to talk correctly but also to text complete sentences with all the words spelled correctly and not shortened.

Also, the lol cats get on my nerves. I get picture messages with those.

 

[joystickjunki3]

I don't like it most of the time, but I have to admit that I occasionally say things like "BRB" and "BTW (pronounced "bee-tee-dub)."

 

[Glerken]

I dislike it. A lot.
It's very, very annoying.

 

[RebelRising]

I sometimes say "lol" or "omg" ironically, but beyond that, it's ridiculous and a bane of the English language.

 

[kaziard]

I use it frequently it started as a joke in my school now its just accepted. Now all you "really hard guys" who have said you "kick ass" or "puch the face" of anyone who does it can all line up and kiss my ass. and yes i do enjoy overuse of quotation marks.

 

[A random person]

I'm ok with it in certain ways and with certain phrases. It's good if used ironically or jokingly. People need to learn to say "lol" as "lawl" or "lulz" and not "L-O-L". It also needs to be delivered in a comedic voice, deadpan or exaggerated. I say "lulz" and "pwned" in real life for, well, teh lulz.

"OMG", however, does not work in real life. When this annoying girl in one of my classes says that, I feel the need to immediately yell "STFU" or "GTFO".

 

[Keela]

I was in a pet store, and this cheerleader-type girl starts screaming OMG, WTF?! THAT SNAKE IS EATING THAT MOUSE! Keep in mind she was spelling each shameful acronym out. Not only did this send me into a rage beyond all rage, it made me seriously wonder if she'd ever been in an elementary level science class.

Also, on a slight tangent, text-speak should be banned from phones. Message length limits are no longer ridiculously small, so you can actually spell out words and maybe even use...punctuation! (GASP!)

My friends don't say that stuff too much, but if they did I would probably start getting pissed. Even cheerleaders at my school only say that stuff sarcastically. And some of them even manage to be smarter than that chick in that pet store. Now that I think about it, I do hate text speak when it isn't on text messages or IMs. It makes typing things back and forth take less time, which can help when you don't have much time to communicate your messages.