Asklemmy

It's an entirely different langauge ...

Mostly, I'm just waaay more coherent when I can go back and edit things, and never lose my train of thought in the middle of a

I spell things incorrectly when I speak. I also speak in cursive.

I would say so, considering I write English here and speak German the rest of the day...

Edit: Alright, I've scrolled down and I'm not the first making that joke.

I've actually been told multiple times that I type exactly how I talk! Once was by a boss and I don't think he meant it as a compliment though...

Picked up the annoying milennial habit of adding 😂 to everything a couple years back when I started hanging out too much with cross stitchers on Instagram though.

In real life, I'm not so great at coherent conversational speech. I come across intense and weird and as I can't information process in real time and I talk quickly and without eye contact, it's not so great for being heard/listened to, or talking with people. (Guess who has autism?)

Online, I can edit my words. When I have enough space to think about what I want to say, and try to navigate how it will be percieved, my communication style is far more legible- and sometimes even comes across as smart and/or funny.

(Edited as I reread it just now and noticed how bad my grammar was.)

I am far more eloquent over text than I am in real life. If I were to speak the way I write, I'd be tripping all over my own words

I swear so much more irl than online, like a ton. I use lol online and some time saving abbreviations (like I won't say irl irl, I'll sound out the full words). Otherwise I pretty much talk the same

I address people as "cousin" slightly more online since it's a handy gender-neutral form of address.

IRL I avoid starting words and especially sentences with S sounds because of my lisp. Literally no one notices but those words still take more effort for me to pronounce.

Online I will reference visual memes, eg. shockedpikachu.jpg

Online I really only use two tones, which amount to "serious / debate / lecture" and "joking / shitcomment / shitkicking". You can tell them apart because the first has sentences that start with capitalized letters and end in periods. IRL I code-switch a lot more with dozens of personas (probably because I sell things for a living).

I’m so much more upbeat online than IRL :)
I like making people feel good so I use a lot more positivity and a lot less sarcasm in my language.

Of course it is different as I am not a native English speaker. Outside the Internet it is Finnish with a Savonian dialect.

My internet dialect is in english and IRL dialect in finnish. There is a whole language family of difference.

I spell things correctly on herw

I’m a lot more polite, and I generally don’t swear on the internet. Irl I’m not family friendly at all. If I were in a TV show my only lines would be “bleeeeep bleep bleeeep bleep”

Digitally, I can express myself more clearly, neatly, and capably (one could even say I feel more sober and not remotely in another state of mind), so I sound like a thesaurus saleswoman, but it's brought to my attention I have the same "mild valley girl idiosyncrasies" (like, I can't help that) along with everything else.

I don't abbreviate as much when talking afaik

I use fewer emojis when talking. 🤷

Much the same actually. For one thing, I decided back in 2000 or so that I wouldn't say anything to a person online that I wouldn't say to their face. I'm sure I've slipped a lot on that. :(

Also, I try to type like I talk. Know what I mean y'all?

the only thing that someone hasn't said aready is that i type alot more on the internet that speaking iRL

If I write in english its pretty much the same. My German is completely different. I talk in a pretty heavy Austrian dialect irl but I write like a german person would

I mostly communicate in English online. Even when I don't use English, my online communication still tend to use more English loanwords. It is also a bit formal and diplomatic, without much use of online abbreviations and other shortcuts.

IRL, it's my native tongue, with a smattering of English words and phrases. It tends to be more informal and direct as well. However, I don't think I use a lot of colloquialisms, slang and the like, even if my IRL speech gets really informal.

Pretty much the same outside of the fact its like I was walking past while you were talking about something and then stop and give you my opinion and then leave but then we see each other later and you tell me what you think. its way disjointed and we glom onto different aspects of the conversation in deciding what its about.

When I'm commenting on a post I tend to use very high-register vocabulary, to the point of sounding archaic or academic. I think it's primarily a hold-over from writing essays in school, but it doesn't hurt that the places on the Internet where I hang out tend to be extremely nerdy.

I also frequently leave my sentences unfinished when talking IRL. I'll just sort of trail off once I can see that I've gotten my point across instead of bothering with a complete sentence.

Mijn internetdialect... nou ja, internettaalgebruik, is ongeveer negentig procent Engels en de rest een druppeltje Nederlands. In het echt is het meer half om half met een druppeltje Duits.

I don't use my country's vernacular unless I am talking to other New Zealanders.