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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.

I think that rickroll is an internettism. I think there was a whole thread on it in the pop. medial section.

Bah... I missed too much here while I was sleeping. From the only Romanian I can actually translate to SMS...

About SMS, I wish people would just type entire words while talking. It probably only adds about five or ten seconds onto the length of a normal post.

The only exception I really approve of would be using widely used or easily understandable acronyms... Like 'SMS'.

Do you guys think that this thread will get to be bigger than ZSC?

Oh and I appologize for going off topic....

I consider "LOL" and "rofl" and "lmfao" to be the laugh track of the internet, especially when people use them in reference to their own posts.

You know, like how on Sitcoms instead of actually making jokes, they just insert canned laughter after everything, whether it is funny or not? That's what people do with those acronyms. Instead of actually writing something entertaining, people just sprinkle a few Lol's throughout their posts.

If the post is not funny, don't try to force the humor with acronyms. If the post is obviously funny, then what's the point of adding anything to it? It's kind of redundant, no?

I think that rickroll is an internettism.

About SMS, I wish people would just type entire words while talking. It probably only adds about five or ten seconds onto the length of a normal post.

The only exception I really approve of would be using widely used or easily understandable acronyms.

If the post is not funny, don't try to force the humor with acronyms. If the post is obviously funny, then what's the point of adding anything to it? It's kind of redundant, no?