Julia
Do you have cacography (errative) in your mother tongue? In Russian in the web it was popular “olbansky” language (or “padonkaffskiy” — “padonki” is an errative from “podonki”— sсums). People wrote in “olbansky” with purposely mistakes — for example, «Превед» instead «Привет» (hi), or «йа криведко» instead «я креветка» (I’m a shrimp), etc. This “language” had quite strict rules of writing which depended on Russian spelling, so if you are a well-educated person, you could recognize if a person had a fun with “olbansky” or he/she just didn’t know how to write a word in a proper way. People could write in “olbansky” long texts and even communicate. Do you have such phenomenon in your language? Do you break words just for laugh or expressing your mood?
2021년 10월 20일 오후 7:44
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I had a hard time understanding this question, since I don't speak Russian, and words like "cacography" or "errative" are note common at all in English. But here's what I interpreted: In Russia it is popular to spell words incorrectly on purpose so the they take on a different meaning, but people still understand what you meant, and that you were making the mistake on purpose. I suppose 2000-era meme culture was a little like that using broken grammar on purpose, with the idea that animals can talk, but not well: see "I can has cheeseburger?" Also, the word OK, comes from a fad from Boston from the 1830s when people used it as an abbreviation for "Oll Korrect" as a purposeful misspelling of "all correct".
2021년 10월 20일
I don't know Russian either, but I believe the closest thing we have in English (at least US English) is called PIG LATIN. To speak it, you just move the initial sound of each word to the end, then add an AY sound. It doesn't work great on words that start with vowels. Example: CAN YOU HEAR ME becomes ANCAY OUYAY EARHAY EEMAY It's not used a lot these days except for one expression used to tell someone not to talk about a subect. IXNAY on the EERBAY means don't talk the beer (Nix on the beer).
2021년 10월 21일
This is fascinating.
2021년 10월 20일
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