it has come to my attention, that while i was away from the internet, (for the first 18 years of my life) a whole new language has arisen. this internet and texting thing, is it a fad, or will it eventually replace the english language all together???
thoughts on this....
also for an example, i was wondering what exactly ftw meant.
i thought it would be fut the wuck, but wow was i wrong....
1. FTW
August 7, 2007 Urban Word of the Day
"For The Win." An enthusiastic emphasis to the end of a comment, message, or post. Sometimes genuine, but often sarcastic. Originated from the game show Hollywood Squares where the result of the player's response is expected to win the game.
Bob: Your 1up t-shirt rocks
Sally: 1up t-shirts ftw.
2. ftw In biker gangs it meant F*ck the World,
but in online usage it mainly means For the Win. When you see FTW, don't ever get a biker confused with a gamer or else you might be like "stfu n00b" and then get your face smashed in.
Ah, I've wondered long time too on the meaning of FTW, but I suspected something like that. One of my theories was it means For The World, due to it's most frequent usage.
And no, internet language will never replace English language. It will get a good hold everywhere in the internet probably, but there are too many people who speak regular English to replace it.
Uh, they teach us British English in the school, so this "lol"speak isn't gonna replace the real English language.
It's kinda impossible, eventhough lolspeak is very popular these days... People speak it all over the Internet, and some people even speak it normally o__e
But I think, that Americans, Australians or British aren't gonna replace their own English with 'lol'speak.
Lolspeak is for the internet, as it shortens up the typing. Anyone who says lolspeak IRL....Well, we call them dweebs, nerds, and dorks in my area. Otherwise, traditional English will stay with us, with slang and jargon in the mix. Thousands of years turned Old English into now, so if there were to be a total revision of how English is spoken, it would be another thousand years for that to happen.
