albanian vs lolz

Dec 06, 2007 14:01

Maybe my russo-english liguo-brethren (and -sestren) already knew this, but i only recently realized the possibilities of translating form Russian internet-speak (aka Olbansky, a misspelling of Albanian) and lolz-speak. For instance, the seminal Olbansky word "Превед!" (a misspelled "Hello!"),  canonically associated with "Медвед" (misspelled bear ( Read more... )

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pointy111 December 6 2007, 20:46:03 UTC
HAHA. I didn't really think about that. I mean, English probably has more of these at this point, but preved is definitely a good example. When I log into WoW daily, I greet people with any of the following: ohai, haythar, lol hei, y halo thar, or any variation and permutation of such. All of those can really be "preved", so what we really need to do is have a big enough usebase of people fucking up the language, so it can really flourish. And, of course, interested people, such as myself and guild members, to accomplish this verbal mutilation.

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megancase December 7 2007, 06:52:37 UTC
Ha, that's awesome. Maybe you should start an LJ group for creating this dictionary. Ironically, I think I know more Albanski than LOLZ - I'll have to study the latter if I want to contribute.

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