Oh it’s even so hard to type the sentence..
So, I am quite impressed to the teenagers ( and too old fellow that couldn’t be categorized as teen anymore ) who master on twitting.
( Really wonder how they type? Am not a good typist, seeing how they managed to combine that characters and strange placement of caps, I must salute them! )
I just found out that this particular syndrome is called TWIT.
Maybe I can’t describe it properly - mind you,because I’m trying to write in proper English and I am not ashamed that I am not excel yet fluent in it, but I tried my best - but basically Twit is the ‘new’ ‘hot’ language, which is popular among teenager. Twit has its own rules on writing normal words, by changing some of the characters ( ex: me - mei/mie/mmeee/mae/mai ), adding infamous alphabets ( ex : work - worx, love - lub, with - wif ), and typed those words on ‘most creative way’ ( ex : WheIRe aarRe U? MmmISZZ yooo lIkex cReizzzY! )
You probably seen these kind of sentences before :
” WhAt da ya tHiNq? diZ Iz dE nU treNDz Of writInGXX! Itz cuuuuuttteeeeyyyyy?”
or in Bahasa Indonesia : “zUN wa sukA caMA kMyu dezzzxchhh….KOk bisA ganTenG sEYY? qU jadi Syukaaaaaa”
( OK I admit. the last one is inspired from the comment of my famous entry..)
I’ve seen these symptoms for while, but never know that this is not only happened in our beloved country, but WORLDWIDE!
I often blogwalking ( or visiting, ) and just found out that our neighbors countries suffer the same phenomenon..
Twitting is mostly happen in teens, mostly you can see it on Friendster’s profiles.
( OH! Is it possible that the weird words are the side effect of the new typing style?? )
Anyway. I considered myself pretty mature. At least I choose to write and speak in real life on proper manner.
I do like abbreviating words too when it comes to write a short message. That because SMS only allows us to write in 160 characters!
So I was quite disturbed when received comments on my blog in twit way (then they confessed that they’re teenager. What can I say. I am too old to confront them ), BUT then this happened to me : I reunited with my childhood friend!
She was my closest friend back days, but after an incident we separated. I haven’t met her in about a decade ago ( see, I am that old ) after she moved to other city.
She found me through Friendster, and I was happy to “meet” her again…until I saw her Friendster’s profile.
Call me shallow, but let me tell you that : she is at the same age as me ( eventhough she discounted her age there ), and she had kids already. So I ‘thought’ she’d be way more grown up than me.
She wrote her profile in those weird combinations of alphabets, even called herself “Cuantiexx” ( means : beautiful. the right word is “cantik” ~ without u,e and xx ). OMG.
And she used the same ‘language’ when messaged me.. I kept asking her what was she talking about, I don’t understand her messages, because she used too many “X” included in the sentences. Reading her messages makes my eyes bit sore.
ARGGGHHH. I thought this virus only attacked on teens.
Seemed it also attacked to this adult who refused to grow up.
Annoying.
PS : I know that I sound harsh. I already told her that I don’t like the way she wrote her messages to me. AND she was ignoring my my opinions, and said ” but it’s cute…”
Ignorant.
I don’t think she’ll visit my blog though, but I just can’t get over it. Everytime her Friendster’s profile updated, I have to see her picture and name, I can only ’sighing’.
Aih.
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