Omigawd! I am, like, SUCH a geek!
Oct. 21st, 2004 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I have a midterm for my sociolinguistics class that I'm working on right now, and one of the questions is asking me to note which linguistic variables might be usefully investigated where I am. I was about to go "well, shit, *I* don't know!" when I realized that the internet has linguistic variables too! Big, hulking, obvious ones once you know what you're looking for. Heck, I can tell you what subgroups a person belongs to just by studying their smileys! Well, not quite. But it's true, smileys go in different groups. Somebody who goes is not going to also go ^_^;;. Never gonna happen. Or hardly ever, anyway :)
So I start typing this up, and it's supposed to be half a page, and before I know it I have three times that much and I haven't even gotten to l337 yet!
I have got to get a life. This is embarassing. How am I going to explain this to my professor? "Oh, I meant to do it properly, but, see, I haven't been in the real world since summer of 2002!" Riiiiiight.
On the other hand, it sure is fascinating. I need to save this question and expand it, see if I can do a special project on it, because I need to get a grade for this somehow.
So I start typing this up, and it's supposed to be half a page, and before I know it I have three times that much and I haven't even gotten to l337 yet!
I have got to get a life. This is embarassing. How am I going to explain this to my professor? "Oh, I meant to do it properly, but, see, I haven't been in the real world since summer of 2002!" Riiiiiight.
On the other hand, it sure is fascinating. I need to save this question and expand it, see if I can do a special project on it, because I need to get a grade for this somehow.
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you know
Date: 2004-10-20 10:58 pm (UTC)Re: you know
Date: 2004-10-20 10:59 pm (UTC)Well. I include people in debates only until 1. I think they're winning 2. I worry I'm about to lose a friend (even though I'm right or 3. I get bored. When one of those three things happen, I go away.
So I'm not perfect. Just thought people should know.
Re: you know
Date: 2004-10-20 11:00 pm (UTC)Re: you know
Date: 2004-10-20 11:02 pm (UTC)Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!! AAAHHH!!!
Date: 2004-10-20 11:20 pm (UTC)*blush*
For some reason or another, I wanted to tell you first. Be happy for me, 'k? Thanks.
Re: Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!! AAAHHH!!!
Date: 2004-10-20 11:23 pm (UTC)It took me forever. Mostly because I didn't know I should get a review.... I kept re-reading my work, and trying to improve based on what was approved, I didn't realize there were other reasons to get reviewed!
Did you go comment in
Re: Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!! AAAHHH!!!
Date: 2004-10-20 11:47 pm (UTC)But, yes, I went and said thank you to Leora.
no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 02:42 am (UTC)There's a major "class distinction" between speakers of Tolkien's Elvish languages and speakers of Grey Company Elvish, derisively known as "Grelvish". Then there's those who speak tlhIngan Hol (the Klingon language), who are offended and/or amused by those who speak the parody version (you'll know you've encountered one of THEM when you see "bok choy!" used as an expletive), and there's those who write Klingon filk (http://members.tripod.com/qaolin/id4.htm)... ghod, linguistic markers in the filk community alone could provide you enough material for a doctoral dissertation.
*grins* Some people would probably say I need to get a life. I've got one: it's right here.
BTW, good reference for l337 on Wikipedia, here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet). Have fun!
no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 08:00 am (UTC)I had to view the source to see what you said after "Somebody who goes", but I figured it was one of those emotes anyhow. I just wanted to say that I am that statistical anomaly who uses *g* and ^_^ (I prefer greater than/less than brackets, but they tend to disappear, depending where you use 'em).
But the sort of "brackets" people use does vary, whether it's *g* or -g- or :g: or.. well, so on. =D
you know
Date: 2004-10-20 10:58 pm (UTC)Re: you know
Date: 2004-10-20 10:59 pm (UTC)Well. I include people in debates only until 1. I think they're winning 2. I worry I'm about to lose a friend (even though I'm right or 3. I get bored. When one of those three things happen, I go away.
So I'm not perfect. Just thought people should know.
Re: you know
Date: 2004-10-20 11:00 pm (UTC)Re: you know
Date: 2004-10-20 11:02 pm (UTC)Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!! AAAHHH!!!
Date: 2004-10-20 11:20 pm (UTC)*blush*
For some reason or another, I wanted to tell you first. Be happy for me, 'k? Thanks.
Re: Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!! AAAHHH!!!
Date: 2004-10-20 11:23 pm (UTC)It took me forever. Mostly because I didn't know I should get a review.... I kept re-reading my work, and trying to improve based on what was approved, I didn't realize there were other reasons to get reviewed!
Did you go comment in
Re: Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! AAAAHHHHH!!! AAAHHH!!!
Date: 2004-10-20 11:47 pm (UTC)But, yes, I went and said thank you to Leora.
no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 02:42 am (UTC)There's a major "class distinction" between speakers of Tolkien's Elvish languages and speakers of Grey Company Elvish, derisively known as "Grelvish". Then there's those who speak tlhIngan Hol (the Klingon language), who are offended and/or amused by those who speak the parody version (you'll know you've encountered one of THEM when you see "bok choy!" used as an expletive), and there's those who write Klingon filk (http://members.tripod.com/qaolin/id4.htm)... ghod, linguistic markers in the filk community alone could provide you enough material for a doctoral dissertation.
*grins* Some people would probably say I need to get a life. I've got one: it's right here.
BTW, good reference for l337 on Wikipedia, here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet). Have fun!
no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 08:00 am (UTC)I had to view the source to see what you said after "Somebody who goes", but I figured it was one of those emotes anyhow. I just wanted to say that I am that statistical anomaly who uses *g* and ^_^ (I prefer greater than/less than brackets, but they tend to disappear, depending where you use 'em).
But the sort of "brackets" people use does vary, whether it's *g* or -g- or :g: or.. well, so on. =D
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Date: 2004-11-24 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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