"His lightening threats spun silver tongues."

[greygirlbeast]

I'd sincerely love to make it through a normal day - which means a day when I spend a lot of time online - without being subjected to - nay, pummeled with - baby talk and idiotic acronyms. It's everywhere I go. LiveJournal, Facebook, the people I role-play with, even email from people I work with/for. LOL, ROFL, butthurt, totes, adorbs, all the

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[shanejayell]

Yeah, net-speak makes me cringe. Be nice if it actually served some use, rather than just being confusing.

That, or I'm getting old.

[setsuled]

I'd never heard inorite. Sounds like a mineral.

I suppose one could argue that Google and Yahoo influence the trend, despite Google referring to a googol and I'm not sure if Yahoo is meant to refer to the ones in Gulliver's Travels or if it's just unintentionally appropriate. But it's obviously a trend companies see in creating things with names like Plurk and Imgur. I think it does reflect a general desire to regress, people really don't want the responsibility of being adults, which is frustrating because I really don't like children.

[greygirlbeast]

which is frustrating because I really don't like children.

Children are fine, as long as their ages are in the single digits. It's the ones in their twenties and beyond who drive me nuts.

[setsuled]

Well, I guess my problem with actual children is that they're so often raised by the adult children you mention. The smaller children seem to act like smaller lenses, focusing the childishness of the larger ones.

[everville340]

totes, adorbs...

It makes my head ache (the acronyms and their popularity).

[greygirlbeast]

It makes my head ache (the acronyms and their popularity).

Yes. And, the thing is, in a way this carp will win out. Much of it is being absorbed into our standard lexicon. I fear it's not like, say, Jazz-Era slang or 1950s Beatnik slang, that mostly died out with those movements.

[everville340]

It does feel as if the carp will win out, almost like a virus that is decimating language.

[greygirlbeast]

Well, Burroughs and others said language was a virus to begin with.

From S. T. Joshi's latest blog entry:

[papersteven]

"I was thrilled to write an introduction to Caitlín R. Kiernan’s Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitín R. Kiernan (Volume 2), due out from Subterranean Press later this year (I think). Now there is a real writer, in contrast to certain others one could name. In my humble estimation she has ascended to supremacy in the realm of contemporary weird fiction-there is no one better than her right now."

Re: From S. T. Joshi's latest blog entry:

[greygirlbeast]

I'm not easily humbled, but...

[alumiere]

Happy Pride! A few weeks ago I marched/rode in our parade with the Bent Con group (LGBT geek con). My Edea costume from Final Fantasy got lots of compliments, but it was ridiculously hot and uncomfortable. Hopefully next year I'll have Jessica's Bene Gesserit costume from Lynch's Dune completed as that fabric at least breathes.

[greygirlbeast]

I wish I were going. I haven't done a pride parade since 1993. But it's just too chilly, and my feet are just too bad.

[alumiere]

Last year (Gender Bent Spider Jerusalem with Bent Con) was the first I'd marched in since the 90s, although I've watched some from the sidelines in the interim.

Sorry you can't go, but I totally get it... Pride pretty well wrecked me for the next three days.