It just occurred to me that my internet dialect in my IRL dialect are slightly different in a few ways. Curious to hear others dialectal differences and thoughts on the subject.
Mostly, I’m just waaay more coherent when I can go back and edit things, and never lose my train of thought in the middle of a
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“That’s what I was going to say!”
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It’s an entirely different langauge …
This exactly. Bold of OP to assume that English is everyone’s first language.
Please quote me where i specified a language.
Instead of making a shitty comment you could have said “While i speak different languages online and IRL, online i am argumentative, direct, and abrasive whereas when i’m speaking in-person i am often indirect and gentle because i prefer to avoid confrontation” which would have been more to the tune of discussing dialects in different situations.
But you do you homie
Same here, but it still has affected my day to day. After attending a primarily english school and consuming english media, I end up codeswitching despite not having lived in an english speaking country. Annoys my friends. Though in my defense, I did work in a call center for a while, and that job only worsened it.
I would say so, considering I write English here and speak German the rest of the day…
Edit: Alright, I’ve scrolled down and I’m not the first making that joke.
I’ve noticed there are a lot of German speakers on Lemmy, compared to other European languages. I’m curious, it a coincidence y’all ended up here, or was there early adoption in Germany for a more organized reason?
I think this was the same with Reddit. I’ve met many fellow german-speaking people there.
I think after the migration to Lemmy happened, it’s just statistics. But I don’t know why Reddit has been popular with Germans.
In real life, I’m not so great at coherent conversational speech. I come across intense and weird and as I can’t information process in real time and I talk quickly and without eye contact, it’s not so great for being heard/listened to, or talking with people. (Guess who has autism?)
Online I can edit my words. When I have enough space to think about what I want to say and to try to navigate how it will be percieved, my communication style is far more legible- and sometimes even comes across as smart and/or funny.
(Edited for grammar as I reread it just now and noticed how bad it was.)
Ohhhh yes. I can’t argue in real life very well. I have to focus and at that point it just takes too much energy. lol
I swear so much more irl than online, like a ton. I use lol online and some time saving abbreviations (like I won’t say irl irl, I’ll sound out the full words). Otherwise I pretty much talk the same
I spell things correctly on herw
I’ve actually been told multiple times that I type exactly how I talk! Once was by a boss and I don’t think he meant it as a compliment though…
Picked up the annoying milennial habit of adding 😂 to everything a couple years back when I started hanging out too much with cross stitchers on Instagram though.
Do you say the emojis after the sentence? :pondering-face:
I’ve been known to! :cry-laughing-smilie:
I’m so much more upbeat online than IRL :)
I like making people feel good so I use a lot more positivity and a lot less sarcasm in my language.My internet dialect is in english and IRL dialect in finnish. There is a whole language family of difference.
I’m a lot more polite, and I generally don’t swear on the internet. Irl I’m not family friendly at all. If I were in a TV show my only lines would be “bleeeeep bleep bleeeep bleep”
Hah! Same with the IRL potty-mouth. People who I got to meet in person after having known me online expected someone really self-effacing and soft-spoken. Of course they were shocked at how salty my mouth can be.
I do keep my f-bombs precise though, for maximum impact.
same mostly
I address people as “cousin” slightly more online since it’s a handy gender-neutral form of address.
IRL I avoid starting words and especially sentences with S sounds because of my lisp. Literally no one notices but those words still take more effort for me to pronounce.
Online I will reference visual memes, eg. shockedpikachu.jpg
Online I really only use two tones, which amount to “serious / debate / lecture” and “joking / shitcomment / shitkicking”. You can tell them apart because the first has sentences that start with capitalized letters and end in periods. IRL I code-switch a lot more with dozens of personas (probably because I sell things for a living).
“Cousin”, i like that. I’ve been working on using gender-neutral address but it’s tough in-the-moment.
If I write in english its pretty much the same. My German is completely different. I talk in a pretty heavy Austrian dialect irl but I write like a german person would
the only thing that someone hasn’t said aready is that i type alot more on the internet that speaking iRL
btw i speak Estonian, English and a tiny bit of Spanish
example sentence:
mitte viiega palun
without five please
sin cinco por favor
im learning Spanish next on the line is German then cornish then toki pona then Basque Iceland pidgin and then whatever language other than English they speak in niue and the rest is not decided
Much the same actually. For one thing, I decided back in 2000 or so that I wouldn’t say anything to a person online that I wouldn’t say to their face. I’m sure I’ve slipped a lot on that. :(
Also, I try to type like I talk. Know what I mean y’all?
I’ve noticed some older people, like my mom, use acronyms or messaging abbreviations way more than my adult age group. I haven’t seen my friends use them since high school/college.
Here’s the way I remember history, starting in 2000 when I was 13:
SMS became popular with us damned kids first. Back in the day each text cost a dime, had a hard limit of 160 characters, and took an age to type on a typical phone 10-key pad. So 1. we had to invent a system to convey body language and non-verbal reactions in text, and 2. we had to abbreviate everything. This triggered the adults’ juvenoia something fierce, then the pop culture industry noticed kids doing something en masse and then every product name was SMS abbreviated, up to and including song names. I think they mistook it for slang? l33t came and went at some point in here as well.
By this time it’s 2004, Strong Bad is bitching about grammar in sbemails, a lot of the cooler places online are requiring literacy tests to participate, and the adults start going online too, and since many of them didn’t learn to type when they were in school in the 60’s, they suddenly understand the desire to push as few buttons as possible, and somehow convince themselves they’re being cool for doing it.
Hence, you’ve got folks in their 20’s and 30’s now who type in a sort of casual longhand, like so.
and people 🧑🤝🧑 in they’re 50s and 60s 👴 who type ⌨️ liek this bcuz 🌵 they can 🥫
Not sure how I feel about that ATM.
I mostly communicate in English online. Even when I don’t use English, my online communication still tend to use more English loanwords. It is also a bit formal and diplomatic, without much use of online abbreviations and other shortcuts.
IRL, it’s my native tongue, with a smattering of English words and phrases. It tends to be more informal and direct as well. However, I don’t think I use a lot of colloquialisms, slang and the like, even if my IRL speech gets really informal.
