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.
It’s an entirely different langauge …
This exactly. Bold of OP to assume that English is everyone’s first language.
Did op edit the post? He didn’t mention specific language at all from what I can see now. Or maybe he said so in a comment elsewhere?
I did not.
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’m not a native speaker either. I took an online vocabulary test once and it told me I’m on the level of a ten year old. Yay?
I mean, isn’t the average english level in the states equivalent to that of a six year old? Remember reading something to that effect. Or maybe it was about literacy rates.
Sounds about right
Can you please provide us with a link? I’d love to take that test and learn about my english age. Maybe it’s like dog-years.
I found and just took this one. It had tough words but I don’t know how accurate its vocab to age chart is.
I got a 22688. Top 5.5% equal to… Lol White collars… Then why am I a blue collar bitch?
21470, top 7.55% Guess that’s satisfactory. But I’d still prefer to know my virtual age. And not the colour of my collar. 😉
Whew. Top 0.1%!
Now… Where do I put this skill to good use?
English teacher… Editor?
Wow, what’s your history? I got top 0.12% from being a pedantic kid studying SAT vocabulary since middle school (and from being a native English speaker who also learned Spanish and French to intermediate high school American standards).
23028 here, top 4.96%.
Got 29610 or top 0.2%, apparently. I don’t consider myself to be wide-read not learned. Also, I mostly guessed my way on the tougher items.
Not a native English speaker at that. I just live in a country where a lot of the post-primary schooling is done in English.
I can’t remember the exact link, sorry
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
Sandwich
“That’s what I was going to say!”
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I spell things incorrectly when I speak. I also speak in cursive.
I also speak in cursive. It’s so weird that in my head my enunciation is clear but when it comes out of my mouth it’s all mashed together. lol
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’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 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 use fewer emojis when talking. 🤷
Digitally, I can express myself more clearly, neatly, and capably (one could even say I feel more sober and not remotely in another state of mind), so I sound like a thesaurus saleswoman, but it’s brought to my attention I have the same “mild valley girl idiosyncrasies” (like, I can’t help that) along with everything else.
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
My internet dialect is in english and IRL dialect in finnish. There is a whole language family of difference.
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
Of course it is different as I am not a native English speaker. Outside the Internet it is Finnish with a Savonian dialect.
I am far more eloquent over text than I am in real life. If I were to speak the way I write, I’d be tripping all over my own words
