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March 17, 2006youth speak or Web2.0 company?When did "q" gain the right to replace "k"? Or "ew" sounds be represented with 3+ "o"s? And since when is "z "such a popular letter in English? And why are we dropping "e"s? And how did words get dots in them?!?! People often complain to me about the youth speak that i stare at on MySpace. Y'know the "suP WIt IT pLAY bOI." But these are the same people who are rattling on about companies named things like Sxip and Flickr and Revver and Goowy and del.icio.us and Zooomr and Oyogi and Zvents. ::smacking forehead:: Just because you're making weird words to get domain names doesn't make your behavior any different than the teens making up words to be unparsable by adults. If you want to have a laugh, check out Cerado's Web2.0 or Star Wars Character?. I'm worried about the people who can win at this. Category: web2.0 Tags: language Posted by zephoria at March 17, 2006 11:11 AM
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my score was 30 (horror!).... i blame it on sxsw ;)
Posted by irina | March 17, 2006 11:38 AM
Posted on March 17, 2006 11:38
danah...glad you enjoyed it! ::hug:: -c
Posted by christopher carfi | March 17, 2006 12:13 PM
Posted on March 17, 2006 12:13
Creating new proper nouns for products and corporations is different. English has always had new names.
That said, I got a 37 without having seen the three most recent Star Wars films.
Posted by Dan Gould | March 17, 2006 12:14 PM
Posted on March 17, 2006 12:14
IMO, web 2.0 is (significantly) the upright web. Wanting to seem loose and fun, it's controlled and calculating--and it doesn't like things (like Myspace) that are actually loose and fun.
Posted by Jay Fienberg | March 17, 2006 12:27 PM
Posted on March 17, 2006 12:27
Gah - 38. My excuse is a childhood devoted to Star Wars. I've not heard of half those Web 2.0 companies.
Posted by ben | March 17, 2006 12:52 PM
Posted on March 17, 2006 12:52
Heh, I got 36 the other day, didn't know anything about almost any of the Web 2.0 stuff. Though I find it strange that at 30, many of my friends are asking for help understanding what their kids write on MySpace, Bebo, etc...
Posted by Kyle | March 17, 2006 1:24 PM
Posted on March 17, 2006 13:24
Many Spanish-speaking bloggers are asking when "k" gained the right to replace "q".
Posted by oso | April 5, 2006 6:44 PM
Posted on April 5, 2006 18:44
In Brazil we're experiencing the same effect among teenagers. Teachers are worried because they now are misspelling more frequently when trying to write formal Portuguese at school. IMO the Portuguese is prone to changing a little bit in the next generations (this is the way languages evolve, isn't it?).
Posted by renato targa | May 26, 2006 8:29 AM
Posted on May 26, 2006 08:29
It's not only english language problem. It's becoming youth speak all over the world and these transformations are common for any language.
Posted by Helen | June 4, 2006 5:00 AM
Posted on June 4, 2006 05:00