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As a non-native speaker, I find the use of slang funny in reasonable doses, but too much of it - as is the case with some posts in this thread - hurts my brain. I have to concentrate much more when reading slang-ridden posts, and I often end up glazing over them as a result.

Too much of it really does hurt comprehension. It's annoying.
 
My dude Remark, straight homie over here. What's goodie bruh.

No one uses slang to get attention lmfao, the fuck?

It's the internet, this ain't no resume type shit where I gotta use proper grammar to the full extent. It's fine to ask what does that mean but straight up roasting a dude over it is nuts.

I knew right away what catching feelings meant lmfao. It means you're letting yourself get emotionally hurt over slang on the internet in this case.
 
To me it just gives off an air of not making an effort or giving a shit about how you present yourself and your arguments. Slang, poor spelling and grammar, etc, makes me feel like you're not really thinking about what you're writing but just spewing out a stream of crap as it comes to you. And I'm sorry, but that makes it difficult for me to take you seriously. Like, if you write "should of" (not slang, but an example of just writing something as it sounds without thinking about it) - what the hell is that? It doesn't mean anything, it doesn't make sense. Same with improper use of apostrophes, etc.

Ok, so I guess I'm more annoyed with that sort of crap than slang per se.
 
Sigmaah said:
My dude Remark, straight homie over here. What's goodie bruh.

No one uses slang to get attention lmfao, the fuck?

It's the internet, this ain't no resume type shit where I gotta use proper grammar to the full extent. It's fine to ask what does that mean but straight up roasting a dude over it is nuts.

I knew right away what catching feelings meant lmfao. It means you're letting yourself get emotionally hurt over slang on the internet in this case.
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You're right, it's not "resume type shit". But if you want to contribute to the conversation it's usually advantageous to be understood by others.
 
Vermillion said:
Or, again, it's a method of typing comfortable for them. I'm not *entirely* sure where spelling "like" as "lik" comes from (presumably texting), but it's a type of informal writing that uses less characters and is quicker.
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They can type however they want, but the existence of this thread is proof enough that it detracts from the conversation and that many people will think less of them.

In addition, just because certain things grab your attention doesn't mean that the person is going for attention when they do it. Not capitalizing grabs my attention, but I doubt it is done for attention. It also doesn't bother me because I don't mind that people are typing in ways that are comfortable for them. It's a discussion forum.
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I want you to look at the following quote - from the OP - and tell me he isn't attention whoring:

Remark said:
I just got back from the rib fest and man them ribs so finger-lickin guuuddd. Gotcha boy fucked rn how good they are. Plus it's taking away from the fact trash Bleach is on my TV rn. Got me full slab chillin at the crib now eatin this shit waitin for space dandy to come on. Got some bud light too to chill wit.

Got damn.
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It's one thing if you aren't a native English speaker and have difficulty with grammar. Slang terms can be more obnoxious, but depending on how well-known the word is it can be acceptable. It's an entirely different thing when you can spell and type perfectly well but go out of your way to make your posts as unreadable as possible.
 
Forgetting for a moment that reading slang is just fucking painful, you're communicating with people from all over the world, not a small group of close friends. At least try to adhere to some kind of commonly accepted set of rules. If I typed the way I spoke (strong West Country English) then nobody would have any clue what I was saying.

And that's without taking into account that a lot of Neogaf speak English as a second or even third language - they're already having to translate what you say without having to dig through a bunch of nearly-words.

It basically comes down to being considerate to whoever has to read what you write.
 
Jasup said:
You're right, it's not a "resume type shit". But if you want to contribute to the conversation it's usually advantageous to be understood by others.
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Ppl are freaking out over "tryna".

I don't know what else to tell you. Maybe if I was like

"Yo dis dat type of wave I ben feelin cause of dem pics" it would make sense to bash.

But no, all what was targeted was one word. Everything else was understandable. And I'm pretty sure u could've easily figured out (if you live in America) what tryna meant. That's why remark wants to know why ppl are catching feelings over it.
 
Sigmaah said:
My dude Remark, straight homie over here. What's goodie bruh.

No one uses slang to get attention lmfao, the fuck?

It's the internet, this ain't no resume type shit where I gotta use proper grammar to the full extent. It's fine to ask what does that mean but straight up roasting a dude over it is nuts.

I knew right away what catching feelings meant lmfao. It means you're letting yourself get emotionally hurt over slang on the internet in this case.
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It's all good just supporting the fam
 
TheRedSnifit said:
They can type however they want, but the existence of this thread is proof enough that it detracts from the conversation and that many people will think less of them.



I want you to look at the following quote - from the OP - and tell me he isn't attention whoring:



It's one thing if you aren't a native English speaker and have difficulty with grammar. Slang terms can be more obnoxious, but depending on how well-known the word is it can be acceptable. It's an entirely different thing when you can spell perfectly well but go out of your way to make your posts as unreadable as possible.
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Emotion thru words my dude.

Plus your looking way to into this, if you seriously think typing a certain way is "attention whoring" then ur a lil slow my dude.
 
Remark said:
It's the Internet let ppl do their thing bruh.
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Beautiful sentiment but on a forum notorious for banning its members I'm not sure that's really in line with what they want here. Not to mention there's extreme irony in saying "it's the internet let people do their thing" while complaining about something someone's saying on the internet.
 
NEOPARADIGM said:
Beautiful sentiment but on a forum notorious for banning its members I'm not sure that's really in line with what they want here. Not to mention there's extreme irony in saying "it's the internet let people do their thing" while complaining about something someone's saying on the internet.
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What I complained about in the OP was constricting people from doing their thing.

Also I always believed this place way to over moderated and needs to calm down I some aspects.
 
Remember these are the same ppl who play shit like dungeon and dragon.

It's funny cah they hate manz who use slang cos they think they tryna be cool. But they're tryna be cool by pretending not to understand. Like hipsters.
 
What does "rn" mean? I honestly have no idea, so that's making it really difficult for me to fully comprehend that post even if I can understand the rest of it. Is it slang? How would you say it in a spoken conversation? "Are-en"? I can't make any sense of it. I could look it up, but not being able to decipher a post as you're reading it is obviously an issue.

GAF might be an American forum, but it's full of international members, and we (I'm Swedish) might not always get your most slangy slang. Making sure you're understood by as many people as possible seems to me like a good reason to use "proper" English. But maybe you just don't care whether or not people understand you, in which case I don't know what you're even doing here.
 
TheRedSnifit said:
They can type however they want, but the existence of this thread is proof enough that it detracts from the conversation and that many people will think less of them.



I want you to look at the following quote - from the OP - and tell me he isn't attention whoring:



It's one thing if you aren't a native English speaker and have difficulty with grammar. Slang terms can be more obnoxious, but depending on how well-known the word is it can be acceptable. It's an entirely different thing when you can spell and type perfectly well but go out of your way to make your posts as unreadable as possible.
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I honestly think that he just preferred to speak that way for that topic. This topic was definitely more intentional.

At any rate, the only way that slang detracts from conversation is because certain posters aren't open to anything not written in their vernacular. I have faith that most of the people in this topic can understand slang; they simply choose to complain about it.

RoadHazard said:
What does "rn" mean? I honestly have no idea, so that's making it really difficult for me to fully comprehend that post even if I can understand the rest of it. Is it slang? How would you say it in a spoken conversation? "Are-en"? I can't make any sense of it. I could look it up, but not being able to decipher a post as you're reading it is obviously an issue.

GAF might be an American forum, but it's full of international members, and we (I'm Swedish) might not always get your most slangy slang. Making sure you're understood by as many people as possible seems to me like a good reason to use "proper" English. But maybe you just don't care whether or not people understand you, in which case I don't know what you're even doing here.
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Presumably "right now."
 
FreeMufasa said:
Remember these are the same ppl who play shit like dungeon and dragon.

It's funny cah they hate manz who use slang cos they think they tryna be cool. But they're tryna be cool by pretending not to understand. Like hipsters.
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I ain't gonna say hipsters but shit is ridiculous tbh.
 
RoadHazard said:
What does "rn" mean? I honestly have no idea, so that's making it really difficult for me to fully comprehend that post even if I can understand the rest of it. Is it slang? How would you say it in a spoken conversation? "Are-en"? I can't make any sense of it. I could look it up, but not being able to decipher a post as you're reading it is obviously an issue.

GAF might be an American forum, but it's full of international members, and we (I'm Swedish) might not always get your most slangy slang. Making sure you're understood by as many people as possible seems to me like a good reason to use "proper" English. But maybe you just don't care whether or not people understand you, in which case I don't know what you're even doing here.
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rn = Right Now

I'm sorry to the international ppl out there and when I'm on my computer I type better but when I'm on my phone I just don't feel like typing out full words on a touchscreen tbh, shit is tedious af
 
Remark said:
Emotion thru words my dude.

Plus your looking way to into this, if you seriously think typing a certain way is "attention whoring" then ur a lil slow my dude.
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And cool, maybe you aren't. But "attention whore" is the impression that I get from your posts. See what I'm getting at here?

Vermillion said:
At any rate, the only way that slang detracts from conversation is because certain posters aren't open to anything not written in their vernacular. I have faith that most of the people in this topic can understand slang; they simply choose to complain about it.
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Whatever the reason, it derails topics enough that OP decided to make a thread about it. Doesn't that seem like a valid reason to just use correct English?
 
Sigmaah said:
Ppl are freaking out over "tryna".

I don't know what else to tell you. Maybe if I was like

"Yo dis dat type of wave I ben feelin cause of dem pics" it would make sense to bash.

But no, all what was targeted was one word. Everything else was understandable. And I'm pretty sure u could've easily figured out (if you live in America) what tryna meant. That's why remark wants to know why ppl are catching feelings over it.
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But you using "tryna" instead of "trying to" in another thread is not the overall point of this discussion, even if it's used as an example. Yes, when I read that post I had to think twice what the word was meant to mean, but it was otherwise understandable text.

Your post I replied to took a lot more read throughs though. I get the overall idea in it, but I just can't understand it. It's not only about misspellings of certain words, but how the sentences are formed. It's like deciphering random globs of letters coughed on the screen.

As far as I know less than 50% of people on NeoGAF are from the US. I don't know what the percentage for non-native English speakers is, but I'd vager it's substantial. You can write however you like, but if you choose to use slang don't be surprised if you're being disregarded by a large body of people.
 
I think people who type in a lot of slang(not talking shorthand, but slang) are trying to identify themselves as part of some subculture of some sort. Which is fine. But if you would like to get your point across to everybody in a clear manner, its not necessarily ideal.
 
FkLA said:
I dumped my first girlfriend because of her constant use of slang. Don't get me wrong I'm not a grammar Nazi or anything like that, but her constant use of slang made me feel as if I was dating someone that was raised in the projects.
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I love this post

I had to dump my girlfriend because she sounded like a poor person
 
I find the improper use of "your" and "you're" annoying, but that's about it. Posts like FreeMufasa's are a delight to read.
 
Remark said:
That's the impression you get but in no means am I trying to do that though. I just type the way I type. Know what I mean?
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I'm not accusing you of anything, I'm simply saying that this is how I read really poorly-written posts. And I'm pretty confident that a lot of them - not necessarily yours - are written that way for attention at the expense of readability.
 
I don't understand how with auto correct about now, that you'd spell words wrong on purpose? Surely it takes more time to spell the words wrong than just let the phone spell for you? Tryna would just auto correct to trying, why not just let it? Seems pretty try hard.

Queens English 4 lyf yo.
 
TheRedSnifit said:
Whatever the reason, it derails topics enough that OP decided to make a thread about it. Doesn't that seem like a valid reason to just use correct English?
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It's a large discussion forum that has enough members to derail anything. There are enough people to condone or defend any type of behavior. There is no way to continuously please everyone other than to stop posting.
 
Jito said:
I don't understand how with auto correct about now, that you'd spell words wrong on purpose? Surely it takes more time to spell the words wrong than just let the phone spell for you? Tryna would just auto correct to trying, why not just let it? Seems pretty try hard.

Queens English 4 lyf yo.
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I don't have auto correct on because whenever I would spell a word it put in a diff word so I turned it off.
 
Jasup said:
But you using "tryna" instead of "trying to" in another thread is not the overall point of this discussion, even if it's used as an example. Yes, when I read that post I had to think twice what the word was meant to mean, but it was otherwise understandable text.

Your post I replied to took a lot more read throughs though. I get the overall idea in it, but I just can't understand it. It's not only about misspellings of certain words, but how the sentences are formed. It's like deciphering random globs of letters coughed on the screen.

As far as I know less than 50% of people on NeoGAF are from the US. I don't know what the percentage for non-native English speakers is, but I'd vager it's substantial. You can write however you like, but if you choose to use slang don't be surprised if you're being disregarded by a large body of people.
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The word tryna is the whole reason this discussion is even happening.

We don't understand the bashing that is coming from ppl over a word. No one is typing nonsense to where it's not understandable. It's perfectly fine to ask or use google to find out what something means. Like, I didn't know what ITT or ftfy meant but did I bash ppl for saying it? No. I just googled it real quick and that was it. If you can't ask or google like I do, then u can just skip over the thread/post.

I don't think anyone is typing to where you have to google the whole paragraph to find out it's meaning lmao. That's what it seems like when it comes to the word "tryna" for some people on here.

I'm not worried if people on GAF skip over my post because they didn't understand it, doesn't bother me.

What's shocking me is that ppl are getting hurt over slang. Does it offend ppl? Like wut bruh.
 
Jito said:
I don't understand how with auto correct about now, that you'd spell words wrong on purpose? Surely it takes more time to spell the words wrong than just let the phone spell for you? Tryna would just auto correct to trying, why not just let it? Seems pretty try hard.

Queens English 4 lyf yo.
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I hardly ever use shortenings or slang when writing on the phone, but auto correct is still the first thing I turn off. It's especially annoying if you are regularly typing in two languages. My phone would always try to correct English into Swedish, for example. In the end, typing things ends up taking far longer with auto correct on than off for me.
 
Jito said:
I don't understand how with auto correct about now, that you'd spell words wrong on purpose? Surely it takes more time to spell the words wrong than just let the phone spell for you? Tryna would just auto correct to trying, why not just let it? Seems pretty try hard.

Queens English 4 lyf yo.
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Tryna autocorrects to teen, try a, and Troja on my phone, so yeah, don't know what you're talking about Bruh...
 
Remark said:
rn = Right Now

I'm sorry to the international ppl out there and when I'm on my computer I type better but when I'm on my phone I just don't feel like typing out full words on a touchscreen tbh, shit is tedious af
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You know that this is kind of disrespectful to everyone who reads your posts? It's not just a matter of being understood though it goes hand in hand. Checking your spelling and trying to use actual commonly understood words is also a sign that you value others. Which to me seems like it should be the most basic form of courtesy when engaging with other people. And the way of communication you choose should not preclude you from that.
 
Folks don't like tryna to understand people. Also, classism/racism.

Makai said:
From the movie Idiocracy, which depicts a future society populated by retarded people. Dalek thinks the movie is a cautionary tale.
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Fun film until you realize how the film promotes ways of thinking related to eugenics, one of the most disgusting (and untrue) ideologies out there.
 
Sigmaah said:
Tryna autocorrects to teen, try a, and Troja on my phone, so yeah, don't know what you're talking about Bruh...
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Well typing just try comes up with trying already, you don't have to put the whole word before correcting it bro. You can also add words yourself if you constantly misspell things bro.
 
Dastardly Jerks said:
Just makes it look like you're trying way too hard.

Chill, be a human or something.
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An ironic statement, considering humans have many diverse types of speech. Robots would use a perfect and uniform style of speaking, though.

Also ironic is the fact that you used the word "chill." Ubiquitous slang, sure, but slang nonetheless.
 
Jito said:
Well typing just try comes up with trying already, you don't have to put the whole word before correcting it bro. You can also add words yourself if you constantly misspell things bro.
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Trying to = 9 characters (or 6, even with auto correct)
Tryna = 5.

Though effort isn't really the reason people type like that, anyway.
 
Ponpo had a funny line about this in another thread.

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Does anyone even care about the personal / public lives of hip-hop artists or do people just pretend to care so they can use whatever new slang that gets created every week and/or those reaction face heads?

"Kany33z33 West Deals Da Coleslaw to Papoose In New Diabolical Paleolithic Twitter Freestyle"

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Unfortunately I've found a correlation between over use of slang and a persons intelligence, particularly on FB. Perhaps I shouldn't be so quick to judge but when I see people type like they talk I tend to groan internally.

I'm Scottish so it's not normally "tryna" but things like "youse" which is a made up plural of you.
 
Jito said:
Well typing just try comes up with trying already, you don't have to put the whole word before correcting it bro. You can also add words yourself if you constantly misspell things bro.
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It's not even about letting your phone auto correct something for you. It's just a way of speech that somene is using to type. idgaf if anyone thinks it's stupid or whatever the case. I don't let myself get worked up over petty shit like that. I understand if I was misspelling every word in my paragraph, then yeah bash me for that but to bash someone for saying tryna meaning trying to, same shit as gonna meaning going to? The fuck?

I'm just more surprised at how ppl are letting themselves get worked up over something like this.
 
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