Comments on: How the Web is killing my ability to communicate

Don Reisinger is having trouble communicating, thanks to Web slang. He examines how it happened and how it is affecting his life.

[TruSake]

ok, you got a WIFE, get OFF the computer, and go have SEX with her FTW, ok buddy?

[mechagodzi11a]

I think there is something that is unconsciously ignored in all examples of this behavior. These kinds of contractions don't contribute to the language, by definition, as they're expedient abbreviations. I don't mean that in the way others have stated above. I mean that they do not make English useful for communicating with others. This kind of thing is not universal at all, not even in an English-speaking world, and a bizarre subculture of a minority of a single country on this planet should not be expect to have this kind of universality, nor should it be entertained by others.

Please, try learning another language, for example, before you make your own any more incomprehensible to even your own wife. There are plenty of expressions (eg: macho, honcho, hors d'oeuvre, sukoshi, etc, etc, ad infinitum) that are sometimes common parlance in other languages. Slang only persists, in the long run, when it is continually useful, like any diction. American internet slang is merely a little bubble that is expected to collapse if and when truer information exchange is promoted on the internet, to name one example, if and when the Great Firewall goes down.

[zclayton2]

So glas you got that useless information out for others to abuse. What? Couldn't think of anything good to write?

[lilkikersman]

haha don that is soo funny i was laughing the whole time reading because I often do the same thing... especially the internet celeb thing with vlogs... but try saying this word "w00t w00t" it sounds funny and normally will get an awkward look from someone or a laugh its too good to pass up...
Best of luck
-lil