What's internet lingo that you usually use (but only when chatting online)

[Naruzeldamaster]

I don't use very much of it myself (Mostly because what I do know would date me super hard haha)
But the stuff I do use is very minor.

'Yeet' for describing the action of throwing.

Ye as shorthand for 'yes' ( though I don't know where I picked that habit up)

"Bro" as an exclamation of surprise/confusion isn't an internet exclusive term but I use this too.

Most shameful/silly one is using the word 'smash' to describe fictional characters. Typically the term is used in the context of 'yes I would do her/him' but I've only seen a few of those youtube videos like that (Smash or Pass). I don't use this one hardly at all unless I'm speaking ironically/jokingly with friends who know me well enough.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Fun fact: I don't talk in person like I do in text. Text is way easier on me. In person, I tend to talk in lolcat and movie quotes and oh, so many silly voices. Autist thing, apparently. My normal voice is also distinctive, and it's gotten me recognized in places I'd rather not have had filled with young, male coworkers with loud voices. Nothing like one of the salesbros hears me speak my dinner order, and over the noise of a busy bar I hear, "YOU'RE THE KANSAS CITY DREAM GIRL!!!"

Yeah.

I also game. A lot. It comes with its own vocabulary, and I'm at the point where I won't even bother to code switch. Yes, I say "Woot!" with no irony.

 

[Romy]

Some bit of generation gap... From a time being interested in computers made you a social outcast...

I hated l33t speak "bunch of posers" and mainly an annoying way for people looking for stuff they knew they shouldn't be looking for... until I got to work with someone I would describe as 'l33t'. Don't think it was intentional but he was.
For myself, I was (ok am) a socially awkward growing up (I now know that has several names but the common none expert version was 'weird') and learned it was easier not to talk to people. Amiga people were different (common interest) and my 'skills' (ok style...) were later learned online, BBS and chatrooms.

So yes, the person above described me as a chat speaker. Hated that but see his point... A later chef explained to people he was used to putting my words in the proper places and imagine those I left out. It's not just the vocabulary.
In person I rarely speak unless you get me going (when I won't stop and you might even get my innermost secrets as a bonus... I don't give TMI, I AM TMI...

Dialects are usually formed in the places you learn to speak, not necessarily your home town. I Have a very hard time comming up with words in my native language and while speaking English you'll immediately find out I got this language from a book... My pronounciation is... me. (In general not a real issue and only one Brit couldn't understand )

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

Fun fact: I don't talk in person like I do in text. Text is way easier on me. In person, I tend to talk in lolcat and movie quotes and oh, so many silly voices. Autist thing, apparently. My normal voice is also distinctive, and it's gotten me recognized in places I'd rather not have had filled with young, male coworkers with loud voices. Nothing like one of the salesbros hears me speak my dinner order, and over the noise of a busy bar I hear, "YOU'RE THE KANSAS CITY DREAM GIRL!!!"

Yeah.

Heh apologies for striking a nerve if I did, that's funny though.

I also game. A lot. It comes with its own vocabulary, and I'm at the point where I won't even bother to code switch. Yes, I say "Woot!" with no irony.

Oh yeah, there's a ton of gaming vocab, I don't use a ton of it on the regular (mostly because I don't play too many of the games some of it applies to)
There's a lot of stuff I understand about gaming lingo but some of them I don't use because they apply to shooters.
Some of my favorite terms from the gaming space are
'rope a dope' (the action of kiting an enemy around an area (typically in a loop) so you can avoid it.)
'Hot Gates' (The action of using a small ish door / gate to funnel enemies through in a more dijestible way)
OHKO (One Hit Knock Out)
Not exclusive to pokemon but I believe Pokemon coined it Same Type Attack Bonus (Or STAB)
There's a few others (that apply to the games I play) but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

 

[pmmg]

I dont talk in internet lingo, I am pretty sure. I sometimes find it silly. All the LOLs and such, when even behind the screen to person is probably not laughing out loud. Its like an entirely fake language made with emoticons and comments that are by their nature not actual (mostly).

I used to use a lot of emoticons, but this site does not offer the ones I am used to. Sometimes it sneaks out. :~( used to be my fav and would create a gnashing crying emoticon, but its not present here. The closest match is this one . My brain still thinks in the emoticons I got acclimated to. (and I hate when site have crappy emoticons).

I quote movies at times, but I have learned people seem not to understand their own culture. I cant take it for granted any more that people even know Star Wars, or Gone with the Wind.

Occasionally the younger gen make comments I know are video game language, and it does not help them to looks smart, IMO. I was around someone once who used a lot of Wolverine lingo, to which I thought something like, what a dweeb. But then...who uses dweeb anymore?

I dont know. In another 30 years, I'll be gone, and you all can have it. I am still at Zounds and Thee.

 

[pmmg]

Fun fact: I don't talk in person like I do in text. Text is way easier on me. In person, I tend to talk in lolcat and movie quotes and oh, so many silly voices. Autist thing, apparently. My normal voice is also distinctive, and it's gotten me recognized in places I'd rather not have had filled with young, male coworkers with loud voices. Nothing like one of the salesbros hears me speak my dinner order, and over the noise of a busy bar I hear, "YOU'RE THE KANSAS CITY DREAM GIRL!!!"

Yeah.

I also game. A lot. It comes with its own vocabulary, and I'm at the point where I won't even bother to code switch. Yes, I say "Woot!" with no irony.

I bet you are great fun to be out with.