exactly - someone who says “L O L” or “O M G” just sounds inane to me.
Which is why those commercials about text messages a while back (where the mom was trying to talk to her family about why they had so many texts) bugged the hoo haa out of me.
exactly - someone who says “L O L” or “O M G” just sounds inane to me.
Which is why those commercials about text messages a while back (where the mom was trying to talk to her family about why they had so many texts) bugged the hoo haa out of me.
I say “brb” all the time, but it’s more like “burb” or “berb”. Useful one syllable ‘word’ when I’m gonna go to the bathroom or the kitchen or whatever.
See, I’d have thought you were trying to belch.
Oh, trust me, if you knew me for more than a day, you’d know when I (try to) belch.
Awwww.
I say asshat all the time =).
I am also of the “pwned” users - pronounced pawned . . .hmm. . .maybe I’m doing it wrong? LAAAWWWLL!!!
I have a friend who will say BRB (“burb”), LOL (“lawl”), and ROFLMAO (“roffle-mao”, last part as in Chairman Zedong) in casual conversation.
I would love to mock him for this, but I cannot, for I have been known on rare occasion to react with sarcastic mock-surprise by saying ZOMG (pronounced, well, “zomg”; try saying “zone” and closing your lips in the middle of the word, and you’ll come close enough). Something about it just strikes me as a perfectly succinct way to say “not only am I not surprised by that, but even if I were, I wouldn’t particularly care”.
Maybe not in your house…
What about “cite?”
pr0n (porn)
fbxrd (kaput, screwed, f’d up)
kitteh (lolpet for kitty)
goggie (lolpet for doggie)
moomie/duhdee (militant childfrees’ words for parents)
Has anyone heard automagically used in speech? How about in reference to noncomputer technology? (I occasionally use it that way.)
How about the adjectival form, automagic? It seems to lack zip compared to the adverb.
Whenever I am in conversation I will pronounce the word “lol” the way I use it online. If something is funny enough to make me smile and maybe say a “ha”, instead I just say “lol” (pronounced “lawl”)
Ok, I do say “Leroooooooy Jeeeeenkiiiiiiins”
asshat yeah I use that one, its probably my favorite word to drop an “ery” onto the end of, usually when walking into a room with people in it “What kind of Asshatery is going on in here?”
el oh el I have heard along with just lol, omg, wtf, I work with teens though so…
another favorite you wont hear much (cause I made it up) is newblar, just a variant of noobie or newbie or whatever.
Come to think of it I may have used douchebaggery in live conversation once…
Why, I believe I may punch someone if they called my wife a moomie.
That being said, back to the OP:
I use Asshat quite a bit.
I didn’t realize I was doing it, but a friend pointed out that I was saying “lawl” a few months back.
I also use “when come back etc. etc. pie.”
I use automagically sometimes, when I’m trying to explain how something works…
And usually in a technology context.
So this would fit well with the guild?
OMG Pwnies!!!1!
As a Brit and never-once customer of Starbucks, I’ll nominate ‘Barista’. I have no idea if that’s what they call themselves in the UK Starbucks coffee shops. I’ve never encountered the word anywhere but the internet.
BTW, ‘whinging’ rhymes with ‘cringeing’.
I have been guilty of using (among others): pr0n, WTF, STFU, pwned, noob, “Epic Fail” (and variations), asshat (and variations), and probably quite a few others. Before the Internet corrupted my speech I was equally abusive of tabletop gaming terms: crit[ical hit], crit-fail, and “roll to save” or “failed to save”.
I think it’s just part and parcel of being a geek.
I don’t really understand neutron star’s nomination of the British/Australian spelling of “whine”. He should nominate the “centre” or “flavour” spellings as well. Those wacky non-merkins.
I’ve used… automagic, asshat, (full of/made of) win/fail, MOAR(!!!), douchbaggery (though only while speaking as a pirate “Arr! What manner of douchebaggery be this?”). “Meh” was part of my vocabulary before it went mainstream.
I have pronounced acronyms (Loll, roffle, lem-ow) though only in a deadpan ironic way. Same idea with speaking LOLCAT only to explain a problem for the third time to the same person… in the past I probably would have imitated a caveman, but LOLCAT is more fun and less offensive (i.e. less likely to be perceived as making fun of the developmentally disabled rather than mocking the idiot in front of me).
It’s not a different spelling, it’s a different word. (in the same way that ‘coffee’ isn’t the American way to spell ‘tea’)
Similar meaning, granted, but ‘whine’ is also a word in the UK (and probably Oz too).