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Internet-speak is of course never acceptable. Like texting or having a London accent it is simply an ugly primitive form of communication (yes yes, language is constantly evolving I know, if Shakespeare was alive today he'd probably be a rap artist etc.), but amongst 13 year old girls it is at least to be expected, even pardoned given that, well, they're 13 year old girls. What transcends this everyday stupidity though is the appropriation of internet speak by relatively intelligent people who know how to type a coherent statement but adopt such babbling mannerisms as a painfully affected badge of anti-cool.
Lolz, I win at TEH INTERWEBZ
This is not an endearingly witty slice of post-irony, it is a hackneyed attempt to forge some kind of personality out of mimicry and arrested development. But it's funny because it's so lame! No, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. How a person communicates is an inherent part of who they are as a person - if someone communicates like a cretin then this, to all intents and purposes, is what they are.
The internet-speech poster often begins posts with 'So anyway', thus conveying the impression that the writer is constantly seguing between delightfully kooky tragi-comic episodes with a knowing nonchalance. One can only pull off this kind of pretension if it is attached to content of some consequence - 'so anyway my father died yesterday afternoon' or 'so anyway it seems the Iraq situation hasn't improved' for instance. 'So anyway, I'm single again/I've totally failed my exams/I got drunk last night' simply reinforces the pointless mediocrity of the subsequent content.
The post will conclude with 'Rant over.' Another horribly self-conscious knowing wink. 'It's okay', the poster reassures, 'That was just my crazy personality surfacing again. See, I'm self-opinionated but I can laugh at myself too.'
Wankers.
Lolz, I win at TEH INTERWEBZ
This is not an endearingly witty slice of post-irony, it is a hackneyed attempt to forge some kind of personality out of mimicry and arrested development. But it's funny because it's so lame! No, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. How a person communicates is an inherent part of who they are as a person - if someone communicates like a cretin then this, to all intents and purposes, is what they are.
The internet-speech poster often begins posts with 'So anyway', thus conveying the impression that the writer is constantly seguing between delightfully kooky tragi-comic episodes with a knowing nonchalance. One can only pull off this kind of pretension if it is attached to content of some consequence - 'so anyway my father died yesterday afternoon' or 'so anyway it seems the Iraq situation hasn't improved' for instance. 'So anyway, I'm single again/I've totally failed my exams/I got drunk last night' simply reinforces the pointless mediocrity of the subsequent content.
The post will conclude with 'Rant over.' Another horribly self-conscious knowing wink. 'It's okay', the poster reassures, 'That was just my crazy personality surfacing again. See, I'm self-opinionated but I can laugh at myself too.'
Wankers.