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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 65 of 94 22 March 2010 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
If you are refering to this text (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-presiden t-house-democratic-congress), then there were 834 differents words (or 1040 depending on how you count them), on a total of 3752 words. Of course, you can only have so many different words in a 3700 word speech, but still, you can do you lots with a 1000 words. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 66 of 94 23 March 2010 at 5:31am | IP Logged | |||||
As a teenager, with teenage friends, I can say I hate netspeak and most of us don't use it (hint: those articles in newspapers and online you see have abbreviations that we never use). I leave out commas and forget to capitalize (normally I'm too lazy), but that's not exactly "netspeak." Also, since I started learning languages, I realized how freaking huge the English language is. So many ways to say one thing. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| robsolete Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 191 posts - 428 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 67 of 94 23 March 2010 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, that's my point. Many younger people (speaking as a twenty-something) make some shortcuts like 'r u avail 2nite?' on phones to save time, but generally this isn't a huge barrier to intelligibility. Actually I think the increased use of smartphones with thumb keyboards is reversing the trend, since it's becoming less of a hassle to type correctly now. Back in *my* teenage years of brick-sized cellphones, when texting first came out it might take you the better part of two minutes to type 'Are you going to be available tonight?' at which point you could have called the person, asked the question, and make your plans. Defeating the point of sending a text in the first place.
So 'r u avail 2nite?' made sense. But nobody would talk like that or write e-mails like that. Also, while you are a teenager with teenage friends, you happen to be a statistical outlier who spends time on the internet researching foreign languages. :) 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5523 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 68 of 94 23 March 2010 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah, I leave out capitalization/punctuation all the time, but nothing other than that really. I do use "lol", but only because "haha" gets repetitive. Edited by GREGORG4000 on 23 March 2010 at 2:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5735 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 69 of 94 23 March 2010 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
I use 'lol' all the time. When I speak. No matter what language! :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| robsolete Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 191 posts - 428 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 70 of 94 23 March 2010 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Ha! I know some people who say LMAO or ROFL in person. OMG, FAIL, and WIN! are becoming very popular, and I have heard TL;DR (too long; didn't read). To be a bit of a smart-ass I usually reply OMG ROFLMAO KTHXBYE!
Which brings this picture to memory 
I think my favorite is getting JAJAJAJAJAJAJA texts/emails from Spanish-speaking friends, though, because I can't help but read it as English and crack up laughing. In my head it sounds like Arnold Schwartzenegger agreeing very emphatically with something. I have yet to run into the infamous Brazilian HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5735 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 71 of 94 23 March 2010 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
In high school, I was in a special IT program, along with a whole bunch of geeks and gamers. You can be pretty sure that we've used every internet acronym in existence in our day to day speech! ;) Some of that vocabulary I'll probably never get out of my system :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| robsolete Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5385 days ago 191 posts - 428 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 72 of 94 23 March 2010 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Somebody needs to do a PhD dissertation on the development of l33tsp34k as an international lingua franca of basement-dwelling nerds around the globe. I won't, but someone should.
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