Feeling those sensational emotions

[selenak]

Allow me to indulge my inner cranky old woman for a moment, at the expense of internet linguistics.

1.) I do not have "feels", I have feelings, because I don't regard three additional letters as that much of a burden.

2.) I most definitely do not have "all the feel(ing)s" about any subject, be they a character, actor, vid, writer, book, film, tv show, song, or the cat who is eyeing me right now as if to dispute this claim. Considering the rich human emotional spectrum, this particular hyperbole strikes me as both empty and lazy, vocabulary wise.

3.) The term "moar" for "more" is just as irritating, despite offering the same number of letters as the original word. English isn't my native language, which means I mentally have to translate every word I write and read in it anyway. I refuse to memorize different ways to spell a word in it.

And now excuse me while I indulge a variety of feelings watching various vids from the recent con, in as much as they're available in my country because so far GEMA has struck to prohibit half of those I tried being shown on YouTube.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

This! Thank you!

(English is my native language, so I don't feel (heh) this quite as strongly, but yes, the first several times I saw "moar" I wondered about harvesting flightless extinct birds. As a person who glories in admits to being Old, I tend to smile on fangirlish speech patterns without adopting that stuff myself. There's another word that gets either truncated or misspelled, which I'm not remembering at the moment, and it does drive me wild.)

[astridv]

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Works like a charm.

[ratcreature]

From the usage I've seen I gather that "feels" is not actually just a shortened form of "feelings". I've only seen it used to express something overall positive, but confused and overwhelmed by different emotions, so that at the moment you can't pinpoint your specific emotional state.

[meri]

I tend to like creative spelling and slang so I kind of adore all these things, but I do understand how annoying they can be. I'm finding myself really irked at the stuff I'm seeing on tumblr which I'm having a hard time explaining and I have none of on hand. :\ It's pictures of characters with various derp* faces surrounded by text that is horrifically spelled but gives some context to the pictures. Like they're saying these words and it makes them sound stupid. Um, like less cute lolcats? (ETA: found a "know your meme" for it. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ermahgerd)

*I hate the word derp and it's meaning, but it describes exactly what these pictures are doing.

I've always felt like moar was a cross between more and roar. Like an emphatic way of saying more. The yelling is in the spelling.

[monanotlisa]

I loved that one, so much, back when I needed it.

[thirdblindmouse]

The way I keep my inner cranky old woman beat down is to ask her, "So, does moving on to this new peeve mean that everyone is using 'literally' correctly now?" And then I don't see her again for months because she's off sobbing and raging in a corner somewhere.

I'd probably be nicer to her if I were dealing with misspellings in a foreign language with one of the most arbitrary and baffling orthographies in the world.