coining a term for words like moran
 

As I was reading OOT today, I saw the standard usage of "moran", "retarted" and so on. I got to thinking about words like these and realized that I couldn't think of a term or word to classify them. I feel that they're common enough on the internet to warrant a grouping term, but "leet speak" is broad and doesn't describe these words, and I can't think of anything else.

Perhaps I'm just a retarted moran for even thinking of this, but I found it interesting...Thoughts?

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asofelisms?

I think they probably just fall under the term of slang or possibly "OOT jargon"

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Ootioms

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not bad.

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Dumbing down of the English language?

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Increasing the breadth of the English language?

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awesome?

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They're not really oot specific though, those words are used all over the interent. Especially moran.

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How about 'netspeak'

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FYP

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its not dumbing down though, that's the thing. Things like "omfg whatevr d00d u r like so laim" is dumb. Calling someone a 'moran' has a point behind it, especially when you think that person will laugh at you and point out the obvious "irony".

Although i like ootisms, its easily not contained to just OOT.

For example, the senior citizen driving through a farmer's market is definitely a farkism. SIIHP, YSSCKY and a whole slew of others are ootisms...but for the generic misspelling of a normal word....I don't know, i think that's something new.

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OK, as long as you are not including terms like 'lol' and omfg. Other possibilities:

netirony (pronounced ne tire-ony)
irany

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OK, as long as you are not including terms like 'lol' and omfg. Other possibilities:

netirony (pronounced ne tire-ony)
irany

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Oh very nice...Irany is quite excellent, and iranic in itself...i think...maybe? Either way I like it a lot...

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mayonaise

Mayonaise alot of people at kleptons party.

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If you want to get technical about it I believe the term for these is 'neologisms.' However this typically refers to spoken words IIRC. Also, these words are particularly devised as homophones for commonly misspelled words.

So, 'neohomophonisms' might work.

Or, to satisfy OOT, how about just 'H0MOisms'

NT

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If you want to get technical about it I believe the term for these is 'neologisms.' However this typically refers to spoken words IIRC. Also, these words are particularly devised as homophones for commonly misspelled words.

So, 'neohomophonisms' might work.

Or, to satisfy OOT, how about just 'H0MOisms'

NT

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very nice. neologism is probably about as close to defining this as word could be without being internet specific. great vocab man...

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i have always been partial to the christopher guest inspired "ironicalisms"

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This is really good.

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That's really not bad, but I think we can go beyond the OOT box.

How about malmot? Cross between bonmot and malaprop.

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How about "idiotonym?" You know, like words that sound the same and mean the same thing as their correctly spelled counterparts, only they make the user seem like a complete and total idiot?

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