AnnieDreams wrote:Are you doing case studies of us? Are we going to be anonymously famous?!
no, language use on the cm just isn't that unique i was mostly using the cm as one example of an online speech community in order to prove that the internet has developed multiple dialects - some mutually intelligible, some not so much. if i hadn't been lazy i would have done a more thorough job profiling distinct varieties (leet, kitty pidgin and the like) - but i only needed to get 50% on the paper to get an A in the class. i did use two examples from the cm though - the more interesting one was about an instance of someone repeating a username in a sentence in order to avoid making a pronoun choice of he or she.
i hope your procrastination is going as well as mine! i handed in my paper today just barely on time!
<table><tr><td>~ Nikki Edwards
Queen of the Harpies <img src="../phpBB2/files/queen_of_harpies.gif" align="texttop"></td><td><font color="orange">President of the Pookie Brigade</font> "If you put those on the internet, I'll kill you guys!" - Jer</td></tr></table>
<center><img src="../phpBB2/files/squiggle.gif">
<font color="#3C8C8B">Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us,
above us only sky, imagine all the people, <font color="#FFFFFF">living</font> for today...</font>
<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>
yes! i talked about "pagebabies" as an example of a community specific word, as also as an instance of compounding, which experts say is a method of word-creation that is rapidly increasing thanks to the internets!
oh, and i also mentioned our award for grammar nazis
I love "pagebaby". I really think we should try to spread it across the land.
<table><tr><td>~ Nikki Edwards
Queen of the Harpies <img src="../phpBB2/files/queen_of_harpies.gif" align="texttop"></td><td><font color="orange">President of the Pookie Brigade</font> "If you put those on the internet, I'll kill you guys!" - Jer</td></tr></table>
<center><img src="../phpBB2/files/squiggle.gif">
<font color="#3C8C8B">Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us,
above us only sky, imagine all the people, <font color="#FFFFFF">living</font> for today...</font>
<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>
<table><tr><td>~ Nikki Edwards
Queen of the Harpies <img src="../phpBB2/files/queen_of_harpies.gif" align="texttop"></td><td><font color="orange">President of the Pookie Brigade</font> "If you put those on the internet, I'll kill you guys!" - Jer</td></tr></table>
<center><img src="../phpBB2/files/squiggle.gif">
<font color="#3C8C8B">Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us,
above us only sky, imagine all the people, <font color="#FFFFFF">living</font> for today...</font>
<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>
What kind? Whenever I take meds, it always just makes me sleeeeeeeeepy.
Well, unless you count oxycodone, which made me dizzzzzzzzy.
xjsb125 wrote:The CM: Fucking up the English language one post at a time.
Our new slogan?
<table><tr><td>~ Nikki Edwards
Queen of the Harpies <img src="../phpBB2/files/queen_of_harpies.gif" align="texttop"></td><td><font color="orange">President of the Pookie Brigade</font> "If you put those on the internet, I'll kill you guys!" - Jer</td></tr></table>
<center><img src="../phpBB2/files/squiggle.gif">
<font color="#3C8C8B">Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us,
above us only sky, imagine all the people, <font color="#FFFFFF">living</font> for today...</font>
<font color="#50B4B3">Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die
for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>
By the way, I really think wte should be renamed :fetus:
~*Megan*~
"Wow, nice to meet you. Nine years huh? That's a really long time. Are you going to stab me or something? Because if you are, can we get it over with?" ~Jer
You are never stronger than when you land on the other side of despair. ~Zadie Smith, White Teeth
I don't remember where we were talking about the Shamwow, so here:
~*Megan*~
"Wow, nice to meet you. Nine years huh? That's a really long time. Are you going to stab me or something? Because if you are, can we get it over with?" ~Jer
You are never stronger than when you land on the other side of despair. ~Zadie Smith, White Teeth
"Wow, nice to meet you. Nine years huh? That's a really long time. Are you going to stab me or something? Because if you are, can we get it over with?" ~Jer
You are never stronger than when you land on the other side of despair. ~Zadie Smith, White Teeth
i was mostly using the cm as one example of an online speech community in order to prove that the internet has developed multiple dialects - some mutually intelligible, some not so much. if i hadn't been lazy i would have done a more thorough job profiling distinct varieties (leet, kitty pidgin and the like) - but i only needed to get 50% on the paper to get an A in the class. i did use two examples from the cm though - the more interesting one was about an instance of someone repeating a username in a sentence in order to avoid making a pronoun choice of he or she.
Niiiice.
