*Stunned* See the icon? That's my suicidal tendency...
1. The word is 'okay.' Not 'OK,' or 'O.K.' Both of these forms tend to scare me away from a story, and I tend to categorize them with in-story chatspeak. Why can't people just write the words?
2. This is what spawned this semi-rant thing. Ya'll know how annoying it is to read a story, and it suddenly spawns chatspeak in the dialogue/story? Scary isn't it. I've seen this tendency ranted about before (and sporked) when a character bursts into chatspeak.
Elena gasped, "OMG, IM N KH2!!!11!!111"
It's even more annoying when the story has perfect spelling, okay See? WORD. grammar, and a half decent plot. Then suddenly there's chatspeak in the dialogue! Now I've heard people make fun of this, mainly in the form of, "Do these people really talk like this? Do you work very hard to become fluent in that second language of yours?" And so on.
I finally have the answer to this question: Yes. People speak like that in real life. *is scared for the planet*
How do I know?
Tw_Tr: *cooking/babysitting herd of siblings*
Back Door: *opens*
10yrBro: *Walks in with baseball bat. Sees food. Drools.*
Tw_Tr: *thinks* What was he doing?! He's not allowed out when Mommy and Daddy aren't home! Yes, Mommy and Daddy. Shut up.
10yrBro: *still drooling* BRB! Save some for me!
Tw_Tr: *lecture vanishes with stunned silence and a dropped jaw.*
BRB. I hate online multiplayer games now. BRB. Bee-are-bee. *dead*
2. This is what spawned this semi-rant thing. Ya'll know how annoying it is to read a story, and it suddenly spawns chatspeak in the dialogue/story? Scary isn't it. I've seen this tendency ranted about before (and sporked) when a character bursts into chatspeak.
Elena gasped, "OMG, IM N KH2!!!11!!111"
It's even more annoying when the story has perfect spelling, okay See? WORD. grammar, and a half decent plot. Then suddenly there's chatspeak in the dialogue! Now I've heard people make fun of this, mainly in the form of, "Do these people really talk like this? Do you work very hard to become fluent in that second language of yours?" And so on.
I finally have the answer to this question: Yes. People speak like that in real life. *is scared for the planet*
How do I know?
Tw_Tr: *cooking/babysitting herd of siblings*
Back Door: *opens*
10yrBro: *Walks in with baseball bat. Sees food. Drools.*
Tw_Tr: *thinks* What was he doing?! He's not allowed out when Mommy and Daddy aren't home! Yes, Mommy and Daddy. Shut up.
10yrBro: *still drooling* BRB! Save some for me!
Tw_Tr: *lecture vanishes with stunned silence and a dropped jaw.*
BRB. I hate online multiplayer games now. BRB. Bee-are-bee. *dead*