Ugh?
The teenagers on tumblr generally baffle me and make me feel old, but what's up with people who use "ugh" or "ungh" when they mean "unf" or "wow, that's hot"?!? o_O "Ugh, he's so sexy!" Seriously. I also just spotted someone saying "hmmm" when she meant "hnng" or other appreciative noises like that. o_O To be fair, I've seen some rather pathetic grown-up people do the random "hmmm" thing, too, which makes me imagine they probably sound like One in bed. "Hmm, Chatterton, you have clasp--hmm-grasped the gentle art of prostate massage! Hee hee hee!"
But... dude, even if we are talking transliterations of funny sounds, there are established meanings to some of the transliterations. The world is a sad place when people don't even know the meaning of "ugh".
And don't even get me started on people who think Ten's VotD "I am a Time Lord, blahblahblahblah" speech was actually an epic moment of awesome. Or the badly spelled RP porn where someone is "dieing" or "cumming" (it's kind of hilarious when an otherwise literate porn fic slips into porn slang. "They made gentle love in the candlelight, their souls merging into one, and then his throbbing wang shot a steaming load of jizz in her suppurating minge"). Oh, the days when you would get lambasted for that sort of thing on slash mailing lists and pointed to style guides until you mended your ways. My fingers still sting from being rapped with a strict beta's ruler if I tried to use "cum" or "throbbing" or "dick". We didn't have LJ then. Or Tumblr. We were strictly corrected and called out on our bullshit and had our Mary Sues torn out by the roots. And had to walk ten miles to the nearest Internet cafe in knee-deep snow with only a spoonful of coal for breakfast. But we were happy. IT BUILT CHARACTER.*wipes a tear*
So, yeah. Tumblr makes me feel incredibly old, since most of the people on there are teenagers. But it does have its good sides. Like this:
And speaking of random gifs, there's always Tiramisu. And John Simm Looks Like An Owl Orly, Doctor?
There was also an epic night a couple of days ago when Tumblr basically went apeshit over Dave/John slash and many lovely pics were posted and much squee was had. I loved that muchly.
And I'd better stop whinging, but it's been one of them days. I should go and write/doodle summoar pr0nz. That'll help.
But... dude, even if we are talking transliterations of funny sounds, there are established meanings to some of the transliterations. The world is a sad place when people don't even know the meaning of "ugh".
And don't even get me started on people who think Ten's VotD "I am a Time Lord, blahblahblahblah" speech was actually an epic moment of awesome. Or the badly spelled RP porn where someone is "dieing" or "cumming" (it's kind of hilarious when an otherwise literate porn fic slips into porn slang. "They made gentle love in the candlelight, their souls merging into one, and then his throbbing wang shot a steaming load of jizz in her suppurating minge"). Oh, the days when you would get lambasted for that sort of thing on slash mailing lists and pointed to style guides until you mended your ways. My fingers still sting from being rapped with a strict beta's ruler if I tried to use "cum" or "throbbing" or "dick". We didn't have LJ then. Or Tumblr. We were strictly corrected and called out on our bullshit and had our Mary Sues torn out by the roots. And had to walk ten miles to the nearest Internet cafe in knee-deep snow with only a spoonful of coal for breakfast. But we were happy. IT BUILT CHARACTER.*wipes a tear*
So, yeah. Tumblr makes me feel incredibly old, since most of the people on there are teenagers. But it does have its good sides. Like this:
And speaking of random gifs, there's always Tiramisu. And John Simm Looks Like An Owl Orly, Doctor?
There was also an epic night a couple of days ago when Tumblr basically went apeshit over Dave/John slash and many lovely pics were posted and much squee was had. I loved that muchly.
And I'd better stop whinging, but it's been one of them days. I should go and write/doodle summoar pr0nz. That'll help.