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Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:44 pm

Maybe I should have written it |\|oob doo|/| to be more balanced and feng shui... well if I was into that stuff. Anyway, anybody noticed how many newbies are spelling it noob, these days?

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:58 pm

Bloomfield spelled it "noob" when he called me one.

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:30 am

It's that noofangled phonetics. Noob is pronouncified the same as newbie (noo b).

If this were 2050 and we were lost in space, it would be Nu-B, although of course the smartspeak teenagers would probably slangify that to Nube.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:16 am

I recognized this development in the online gaming scene as well. In 2001, one was a newbie. In 2002, one was a newb. In 2003, one was a noob. In 2004, one was a n00b or b00n. In 2005, one was a nap (in Germany, pronouced like 'nub').

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gallant_murray · Post by **gallant_murray** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:17 am

This is an odd place for discussion about linguistics, but I'll reply anyway. Internet users (especially in emails and chat forums) have created their own language/dialect with new words, spellings, and grammatical formations. I remember the first time I read the word "peeps" in an email (other examples include "N -E-ways" for anyways sometimes shortened to "ne-ways", "lol", "noob", etc.) What is really interesting is that many of these internet forms are being incorporated into regular speech. Anyway, I just think it's neat.
Cheers.

dow · Post by **dow** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:27 am

Someone said something funny to me the other day, and I caught myself just before replying, "LOL."

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:44 am

Most of these are spawned when an amusing misspelling catches on.
Most of these misspellings are the result of laziness, or typos resulting
from speedy typing.

For example:
"I own you" (trash-talk) becomes "You got owned" (video game trash-
talk), which is misspelled "You got pwned", which is shortened to
"pwned!"

Also, my favorite:
That is teh suxxor!

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:54 am

I am just waiting for E.B.White’s book on proper internet style so that I can write an intelligent dissertation on one of the chat forums that commands respect due to my elite knowledge of the internet lexicon.

shadeclan · Post by **shadeclan** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:29 am

dow wrote:Someone said something funny to me the other day, and I caught myself just before replying, "LOL."

And I am still trying to figure out what the heck "BTW" means!

dow · Post by **dow** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:33 am

By The Way.

shadeclan · Post by **shadeclan** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:36 am

dow wrote:By The Way.

Thank you for laying waste to a small section of my vast ignorance . . .

Now, how about IMHO - I'M a Hoover Octipus? It May Happen Once? I Might Have Ovaries?

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:40 am

shadeclan wrote:
dow wrote:By The Way.
Thank you for laying waste to a small section of my vast ignorance . . .

Now, how about IMHO - I'M a Hoover Octipus? It May Happen Once? I Might Have Ovaries?

Try here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang

Didn't know this one

GIRL
"guy in real life"

Edit to add overlap slang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_slang

shadeclan · Post by **shadeclan** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:49 am

I.D.10-t wrote:
shadeclan wrote:
dow wrote:By The Way.
Thank you for laying waste to a small section of my vast ignorance . . .

Now, how about IMHO - I'M a Hoover Octipus? It May Happen Once? I Might Have Ovaries?
Try here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang

Didn't know this one
GIRL
"guy in real life"

I'm definitely bookmarking that puppy! Thanks!

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:28 pm

This amuses me.

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:23 pm

Sounds like a computer-driven version of Newspeak to me:
(excerpt from "1984")

This is Syme, a worker in the Ministry of Truth, talking: "...We're getting Newspeak into its final shape - the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else. We're destroying words - scores of them, hundreds of them everyday. We're cutting language down to the bone. It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Take "good", for instance. If you have a word like "good", what need is there for a word like "bad"? "Ungood" will do just as well...
...Every year, fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?..."