It just occurred to me that my internet dialect in my IRL dialect are slightly different in a few ways. Curious to hear others dialectal differences and thoughts on the subject.
It’s an entirely different langauge …
This exactly. Bold of OP to assume that English is everyone’s first language.
Did op edit the post? He didn’t mention specific language at all from what I can see now. Or maybe he said so in a comment elsewhere?
I did not.
Please quote me where i specified a language.
Instead of making a shitty comment you could have said “While i speak different languages online and IRL, online i am argumentative, direct, and abrasive whereas when i’m speaking in-person i am often indirect and gentle because i prefer to avoid confrontation” which would have been more to the tune of discussing dialects in different situations.
But you do you homie
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I mean, isn’t the average english level in the states equivalent to that of a six year old? Remember reading something to that effect. Or maybe it was about literacy rates.
Sounds about right
Can you please provide us with a link? I’d love to take that test and learn about my english age. Maybe it’s like dog-years.
I found and just took this one. It had tough words but I don’t know how accurate its vocab to age chart is.
I got a 22688. Top 5.5% equal to… Lol White collars… Then why am I a blue collar bitch?
21470, top 7.55% Guess that’s satisfactory. But I’d still prefer to know my virtual age. And not the colour of my collar. 😉
Whew. Top 0.1%!
Now… Where do I put this skill to good use?
English teacher… Editor?
Wow, what’s your history? I got top 0.12% from being a pedantic kid studying SAT vocabulary since middle school (and from being a native English speaker who also learned Spanish and French to intermediate high school American standards).
23028 here, top 4.96%.
Got 29610 or top 0.2% apparently. I don’t consider myself to be wide-read nor learned. Also, I mostly guessed my way on the tougher items.
Not a native English speaker at that. I just live in a country where a lot of the post-primary schooling is done in English.
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Same here, but it still has affected my day to day. After attending a primarily english school and consuming english media, I end up codeswitching despite not having lived in an english speaking country. Annoys my friends. Though in my defense, I did work in a call center for a while, and that job only worsened it.
Mostly, I’m just waaay more coherent when I can go back and edit things, and never lose my train of thought in the middle of a
Sandwich
“That’s what I was going to say!”
I spell things incorrectly when I speak. I also speak in cursive.
I also speak in cursive. It’s so weird that in my head my enunciation is clear but when it comes out of my mouth it’s all mashed together. lol
I would say so, considering I write English here and speak German the rest of the day…
Edit: Alright, I’ve scrolled down and I’m not the first making that joke.
I’ve noticed there are a lot of German speakers on Lemmy, compared to other European languages. I’m curious, it a coincidence y’all ended up here, or was there early adoption in Germany for a more organized reason?
I think this was the same with Reddit. I’ve met many fellow german-speaking people there.
I think after the migration to Lemmy happened, it’s just statistics. But I don’t know why Reddit has been popular with Germans.
In real life, I’m not so great at coherent conversational speech. I come across intense and weird and as I can’t information process in real time and I talk quickly and without eye contact, it’s not so great for being heard/listened to, or talking with people. (Guess who has autism?)
Online I can edit my words. When I have enough space to think about what I want to say and to try to navigate how it will be percieved, my communication style is far more legible- and sometimes even comes across as smart and/or funny.
(Edited for grammar as I reread it just now and noticed how bad it was.)
Ohhhh yes. I can’t argue in real life very well. I have to focus and at that point it just takes too much energy. lol
I’ve actually been told multiple times that I type exactly how I talk! Once was by a boss and I don’t think he meant it as a compliment though…
Picked up the annoying milennial habit of adding 😂 to everything a couple years back when I started hanging out too much with cross stitchers on Instagram though.
Do you say the emojis after the sentence? :pondering-face:
I’ve been known to! :cry-laughing-smilie:
I think my online voice is pretty similar to my IRL voice, probably the biggest thing is that my accent doesn’t come through
I’m from outside of Philly and while I don’t necessarily have the most strong, stereotypical accent, I do have a lot of the typical linguistic quirks, but a lot of it tends to be pronunciation differences. As far as actually words and phrases, I use "jawn” and “youse” or “youse guys” a lot less online.
For example I might grab myself a cup of cawfee or an ahrnge juice and a begel for breakfast, before I head down to the crick to do some fishing. Before I go I’ll leave a note for my wife telling her when to expect me back, but I can’t find a pen so I use some crowns. Then when I get back I’ll warsh off my boots with wooder from the spicket outside, maybe wipe them off with a tal, and put them inside by the rattyator to dry off, while I sit down to watch the iggles game (go birds!) Maybe I’ll hit up my friend, and ask him “Jeet?” and he’ll reply, “No, jew?” so I’ll stop at Wawa and tap MAC so I can buy us some hoagies, probably paired with a lager, and maybe get some wooder ice or maybe some ice cream with jimmies for dessert.
I was born in Philly but moved to Texas in the 3rd grade. With the exception of a few things, like how I say orange, my Philly accent is gone. However, I would still use “you guys” instead of “y’all” online. Even though I would say y’all IRL. Recently, I started using “you all” because I got told “you guys” was not inclusive.
A fascinating demonstration.
Thank ya fer writin’ 'at out. I sure-'njoyed it.
I address people as “cousin” slightly more online since it’s a handy gender-neutral form of address.
IRL I avoid starting words and especially sentences with S sounds because of my lisp. Literally no one notices but those words still take more effort for me to pronounce.
Online I will reference visual memes, eg. shockedpikachu.jpg
Online I really only use two tones, which amount to “serious / debate / lecture” and “joking / shitcomment / shitkicking”. You can tell them apart because the first has sentences that start with capitalized letters and end in periods. IRL I code-switch a lot more with dozens of personas (probably because I sell things for a living).
“Cousin”, i like that. I’ve been working on using gender-neutral address but it’s tough in-the-moment.
My internet dialect is in english and IRL dialect in finnish. There is a whole language family of difference.
I swear so much more irl than online, like a ton. I use lol online and some time saving abbreviations (like I won’t say irl irl, I’ll sound out the full words). Otherwise I pretty much talk the same
I’m so much more upbeat online than IRL :)
I like making people feel good so I use a lot more positivity and a lot less sarcasm in my language.Much the same actually. For one thing, I decided back in 2000 or so that I wouldn’t say anything to a person online that I wouldn’t say to their face. I’m sure I’ve slipped a lot on that. :(
Also, I try to type like I talk. Know what I mean y’all?
I’ve noticed some older people, like my mom, use acronyms or messaging abbreviations way more than my adult age group. I haven’t seen my friends use them since high school/college.
Here’s the way I remember history, starting in 2000 when I was 13:
SMS became popular with us damned kids first. Back in the day each text cost a dime, had a hard limit of 160 characters, and took an age to type on a typical phone 10-key pad. So 1. we had to invent a system to convey body language and non-verbal reactions in text, and 2. we had to abbreviate everything. This triggered the adults’ juvenoia something fierce, then the pop culture industry noticed kids doing something en masse and then every product name was SMS abbreviated, up to and including song names. I think they mistook it for slang? l33t came and went at some point in here as well.
By this time it’s 2004, Strong Bad is bitching about grammar in sbemails, a lot of the cooler places online are requiring literacy tests to participate, and the adults start going online too, and since many of them didn’t learn to type when they were in school in the 60’s, they suddenly understand the desire to push as few buttons as possible, and somehow convince themselves they’re being cool for doing it.
Hence, you’ve got folks in their 20’s and 30’s now who type in a sort of casual longhand, like so.
and people 🧑🤝🧑 in they’re 50s and 60s 👴 who type ⌨️ liek this bcuz 🌵 they can 🥫
Not sure how I feel about that ATM.
Of course it is different as I am not a native English speaker. Outside the Internet it is Finnish with a Savonian dialect.
If I write in english its pretty much the same. My German is completely different. I talk in a pretty heavy Austrian dialect irl but I write like a german person would
I don’t abbreviate as much when talking afaik
