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May 21, 2005
Marxy Back, Lance on Hiatus
Coming back to the computer this morning, I was a little worried about the effect of Lance's posts on my readership, but I checked my stats: my unique visitors went up 25%! Apparently, you would all rather read musings from an American 16 year-old than whatever it is I usually write about. I should have known that this day was coming.
I was amused to find that some people doubted Lance's existence, but surely, Lance exists whether in Charlottesville, Nashville, or Rockville. Reading his posts, I was reminded of why I don't currently reside in the United States and refreshed on some of the weaker points of Kurt Cobain's lyrics.
I'm back to essaying about Japan this week, so stay tuned if that's your kind of thing. Lance fans can check "the Internet" for similar-type posts.
Posted by marxy at May 21, 2005 11:51 AM
Comments
i'll definitely "check" the "internet", bobbing for more
no one matches your witty hoaxes, though.
i wish i could lecture you on the French teen blog-type language, you'd be thrilled.
Posted by: odot at May 21, 2005 7:17 PM
I'd really love to hear about French teen blog-slang. Maybe you can write something for my blog about it. (I'm serious.)
Posted by: marxy at May 21, 2005 7:26 PM
A French friend tells me one of the favored oddities in slang these days is to switch around the syllables. I think the example he gave was turning femme in to mmefe or something.
Also it turns out Spanish teens re-spell everything when using IM software. Anything qu becomes k. "Kien eres?" or the word que becomes ke. And, de is always abbriviated as d.
Posted by: graham at May 22, 2005 6:33 AM
Perhaps more people came because he offered more popular words up to the search engines. Lots more people googling Puddle of Mudd than Kiiiiiii! (sadly...) Maybe you should start each post with a "teaser"; something like "dormroom fantasy, spring break, free pics" and then break into the usual diatribe about how your new phone is a "Ms." not an "it." ... Wait, what does "hoax" mean?
Posted by: farley at May 23, 2005 2:10 PM
i'm working on that, david
but teen vernacular has become quite a complex thing
the thing you're mentioning, graham, is called "verlan" (it's the reversed "l'envers", it's based on quite a complex switching around of syllables (especially for words with more than two syllables) and completely random laws (some words get respelled, some don't). but it's nothing new - it's at least 15 years old...
teen language has evolved dramatically since then. i was more thinking of the written one, though, which is even more amazing (plus it uses a lot of non words involving coded sms language and nerdy internet codes)
Posted by: odot at May 24, 2005 6:25 PM