My son (14) watches a lot of video game streamers on Twitch.tv. I personally don't find them entertaining but I can understand why some people (like my son) do. Over the past month he's starting using terms like "pog", "jabaited", and "Kappa" which I guess are terms that are used in the scope of Twitch and gaming.
I don't have an issue with my son using these terms but it's gotten to the point where every sentence is Twitchspeak. We were having dinner and my daughter (age 12) was talking about how she got accepted for a summer program with the local animal shelter, and my son said "Pog you, easy clap". I told him that it was getting out of hand and that he would have to communicate normally to his parents and family. To that he said "Weird champ, feels weird man, normies omega LOL."
Why has this type of speaking gotten so popular in the gaming community?
I remember when literally 500 people at our school were saying "lol" (not "el oh el" but like lolly pop) in basically every sentence for nearly two years because everyone played so much WoW and was on ICQ and MSN the entire time. Our teachers probably were about ready to kill themselves.
Brody Bailey
Now that I'm thinking more about it, I'm pretty sure there were even some people saying "xD" out loud. Thank god "^^" is not a word.
