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I was talking to my mum on the phone the other day. She told me my brother had eaten a whole cake and I said 'Rofl!'
She was like '...What?'
So now I know. I'm officially a computer geek.
Have you ever said stuff like 'lol' and 'rofl' in real life? Are there other signs to watch out for?
Yes I have.
Or like when I said AFK when I had to do something while I wasn't even at my computer. Or if you're handwriting an essay and look to the bottom right of the paper looking for the time.
rofl = row full? Roffle (like waffle but roffer...hahah groan)
OMG
BTW WTF, lol, lmao
I've only ever said, BRB ("Burb"), but that was on Audio conversation, over Skype. I didn't know what else to do. :(
lol
I like saying rofflecopter!
life gets too hard and you try to controlaltdelete
Lmao! Like.. ll mayo! And rofl like Waffle! :skull3:
Ill be talking to my friends and ill be like
"hahah lol!"
"..."
Yeah, I have noticed myself saying lol recently.
*coughPrimusInterParescough*Quote:
Originally Posted by Iri Valentine
EDIT: DAMN, He beat me to it!
I don't see wtf, brb, or lmao as pronouncable for some reason. I actaully say in my head what they mean whenever I type those or see them on screen. lol I can see myself saying, but I don't. Same with rofl. But I've only recently gotten into not saying that one in my head and just going with everyone else on "roffle". omg, stfu, etc. I they're just abbreviations for me. When actaully talking I say them out. Oh my god. Hell... I type them out almost all the time. I don't actaully use very many abbreviations...
I've almost said 'lol' a few times, but I stopped myself just in time.
I dont.rofl
I said 'lol' once, which was immediately followed by no less than fifteen seconds of silence by all persons in earshot. I had the urge to go home and find comfort at the end of a noose, but hey, I'm still here.
I say 'Oh Em Gee' and 'Double-U Tee Eff' frequently as inside jokes amongst my gamer friends, because no one else knows what we're talking about.
Yeah...but it is usually in a joking/mocking way.
WHO I AM KIDDING! It is still just as bad :crying2:
I say stuff like 'lol', 'omgwtf', 'brb', etc. Usually, I just pronounce the letters, like 'brb' = Bee Ar Bee. I said 'lol' to mum a few times, and she just stared blankly at me. Also, when I'm about to do something improtant, I'll often think 'Uh-oh, better save in case it goes wrong'. My life is going DIGITAL! O_O
About two weeks ago I couldn't stop saying lol, but it annoyed everyone so I was forced to stop after only a week.
Smile and Be happy :love:
Saying stuff like lol for real isn't that big of a deal, because when we type it, it sounds normal in our head. But I myself have never said anything or done anything like that.
I CAN DEBUG (some other nerdy hacker word probably) GIRLS BRA
lol internets
No..I guess i'm not a computer geek..~_~
I've said lol and OMGF a couple times.
But that's it.
I sometimes say lol when some one gets owned, pwned, or pwnt in real life situations.
For example, a person trying to sell stuff on the side of the street, getting a puddle splashed all over their wares deserves a nice, hearty LOL. Sometimes even as much as an LOLZ.
I always do this xD
xD
Oh yeah, my friends and I've been saying "OMGROXORPWNED" a lot lately, which is usually met with a "WTF".
Only, ya know, spelled out.
Oh yeah, I say Owned alot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Caspian
It's my boyfriends fault, because long long ago* when we were best friends, he and another few friends made me play CS:S, and then, I found it fun, and kept playing it with them, as my brother owned the game anyway.
And yes, I'm sure I'm a girl. :D
*more like 3 months
I used to say owned all the time but i've stopped, now just everyonce in a while ill say lol or roffle (
I once tried to roffle my waffles just to see if they would taste any different. They didn't. :(
I say pwned a lot. I also like to say STFU, but I pronounce it like "stuff-you"
I thought "Owned.." wasn't an online thing :eek:
No. I may spend most of the day on the computer, but at least I have the decency to keep this perverse Internet pseudo-language out of my standard dialect.
I don't think "owned" counts as geek-speak.
In any case, I don't have these issues. Yay for social skills. :)
Indeed.
I say "meh" in real life all the time, didnt even know i was doing it for the longest time, until another nerd pointed it out to me.
I never use any of those terms while I'm on the computer so I sure don't use them when I'm not on the computer.
"Meh" did not originate in the Internet.
I know I'm a computer geek without saying of those things. xD OMG, probably. I'd find it hard to say rofl and lmao in real life with the same gusto. xD
xD No, I don't do that. *labels you all freaks and runs away* ;)
How you people manage to pronounce this stuff and still get out of bed everyday is beyond me.
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Originally Posted by Yamaneko
really??? well thats where i got it from. Anyways thats pretty much it, and when my friends are jokingly being nerds i say "omfg-wtf-h@x0r".
You have to get out of bed to reach the computer :p Unless your computer is right beside you on the bed and you sleep with it and cuggle it and spoon it every night! ....:shifty: I wouldn't put that beyond some of you xD
Owned is an online term?
Oh, then I use that one all the time.
i do it thinking of jojo
this is how i know i am computer geek
I know a person who says OMG to sound kinda like omega and it is really annoying, like beat with stick annoying.
"Omg! Omg! Omg! Did you, like, see, like that, like guy"
I say roxor sometimes, and lots of people I know say lol, but on the whole I tend to stick to regular english... unless gah! counts. Then I'm screwed.
Do.... ... what? :greenie: *suspicious look*Quote:
Originally Posted by Meat Puppet
that whole "pc lovin'" thing you wrote aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by Monkey
I've said "omg" and "wtf" in real life. jokingly. also "lol".
and I've used the word "pwned".
but for the most part I use real english words. jolly good, wot wot? if you drive your lorry too fast on the frog and toad, you might get stopped by a bobby and need a barrister to defend yourself. and that would soil your honour. this is my favourite thing to do, making fun of brits. <3 xD
I've been saying stuff like "oh em jee ell oh ell!" lately just to make people look at me weird due to the fact that they don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
But you mean like, in an actual conversation, unintentionally, where I'm paying attention? No.
My brother, Yuki, goes 'lol' and 'lmao' and 'omg' ALL the time. It drives me nuts, especially since, he sometimes affects his gay man voice.... *kills Yuki*
we dont speak like that..do we..? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Denmark
well merseyside is so.. un..posh so hah!
i usually say WTF to avoid the usual stares when i say what that actually means...
The day I use an internet acronym in my speech is the day I go down... and I'm taking EoFF with me.
Roffle.
Lolz.
Loool.
Doubleyou tee eff.
Eksdee.
Less-than-three.
Uparrow underscore uparrow.
Pwned/pwnzed.
'O__o' - generally comes out as 'Ooooh', but sounds more surprised than it ought to.
I am proud of cross-pollinating the spoken word and the typed!
I also frequently find myself wondering how to change what I'm looking at. When I'm reading a book. "Where are the back button?!"
Jeff and I never actually have real conversations, but when we deem it accurate, one of us will say "owned." The other will say "pwned." And then the original person will say, "Nah, nah. Bwned."
*leaves*
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Originally Posted by Yamaneko
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Manus
I only do one of these except in the company of one of my freinds who is a true computer nerd.
I say Pwned but I say it like P-Oh-nd, we dont say Owned because Pwned has a P Damnit!
When im with my Nerd friend we end up saying:
lol
rofl
wtf
stfu
mofo
pwned
haxor
leet (1337, l33t)
ME say lol or rofl or asl or wtf out loud?
Or even shout them out whilst walking around in Birmingham on the EoFF UK meetup?
No, i dont think that has ever happened, and anyone who says different is LYING.
LYING I TELL YOU!
:D
lolroflmaoaslwtf?
My english teacher asked me what happened in september 11th 2001 and i answered that the planes hit the wtf tower. She said it was correct :)
I've only ever said 'that pwns' to my friend, when I see something good.
But he looks at me with a blank expression on his face.
http://board.muse.mu/images/smilies/lol.gif
Other than that no...
I don't think I could say OMGZZ!!!!11!Eleventyonezero. :p
Pwns=Pwones
Otherwise, no. :p
Saying abbreviations outloud ticks me off so much. I accidentally said LOL once in 1999, and I regretted it, and never tried to do it again since.
The stupid msn msger and xanga kids that go 'omg jay kay jay kay' annoy me SO incrediably much.
(However, saying actual words, like pwn and pwesome and l33t is perfectly fine. *coughs*)
I am a geek by default. No one around me has my level of geekery, however small it is, so I fill the spot.
I've written :p on school work before :p