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Erm, Dragostea din tei is sung in Romanian by a Moldovan pop group, O-zZone.

And the guy who does Numa Numa is Gary Brolsma.

I know. But the song Numa Numa uses is Dragoesta Din Tei.

I said that didn't I? Ah, I just assumed that.

Though is that guy really French?

On another note, I meant O-Zone not O-zZone.

Wow. I left back on page 50 something.
I used to be addicted to the Numa Numa song lol. Love it.

I think he's French, I saw on the news one day, they said something about Numa Numa, and I think they said he's French.
Though his name doesn't sound French.

Hmm?

The Numa Numa Guy, Gray Brolsma is American.



Or are you talking about someone else?

Then the news cast are lying! Or I just heard wrong. O.o
Yeah, American.

Of course. Leave it to an American...

On the topic of internettisms though, what about all the infuriating acronyms for everything? Seriously, it baffles me. We have a full keyboard in front of us and access to every resource in the world regarding proper grammar, spelling, and sentence structure and the fad is to reduce everything to acronyms... highly infuriating.

You aren't alone bud, I can definitely say that.

I don't like SMS language to be honest. It is like a corruption of our language. Though I do not expect it to threaten the ways of proper grammar.

I thought that the acronymic language was started by teens chatting to each other in ways to baffle their parents?
What I find hilarious is that 30 somethings and older type that way too. I don't mind people who are young at heart but there comes a time when we need to face the mirror honestly and just act our age. I might include add occassional rofl or lol or 0_0, o_o, O_o but I prefer to type the way I would normally speak.
BTW, what's SMS?

Text, texting that kind of stuff. While originally "texting" was derived from the sending of messages through SMS, it now also refers to messages with images and sound, erm MMS's.

Lol I only use SMS when Im typing honestly. Texting I like to be punctual. rofl

there comes a time when we need to face the mirror honestly and just act our age.

Slang in a SMS, I think it's useful cause it shortens the text, and it just makes it faster too type to each other. But too take that slang too the Internet and forums like this one, it's then it gets out of hand.

Here in Sweden, there are actually some SMS slang words added too the language and the SAOB (Swedish Academy Dictionary).

And actually much the acronym type speak began with morse code and ham radio, although many of the most common ones started with the internet on bulletin board and forum type rooms. From there they were spread rapidly with chatting and then with the introduction of the text feature on mobile phones.