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.

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 to 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 for grammar as I reread it just now and noticed how bad it was.)

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.

I spell things correctly on herw

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 use fewer emojis when talking. 🤷

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 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 think my online voice is pretty similar to my IRL voice, probably the biggest thing is that my accent doesn’t come through

I’m from outside of Philly and while I don’t necessarily have the most strong, stereotypical accent, I do have a lot of the typical linguistic quirks, but a lot of it tends to be pronunciation differences. As far as actually words and phrases, I use "jawn” and “youse” or “youse guys” a lot less online.

For example I might grab myself a cup of cawfee or an ahrnge juice and a begel for breakfast, before I head down to the crick to do some fishing. Before I go I’ll leave a note for my wife telling her when to expect me back, but I can’t find a pen so I use some crowns. Then when I get back I’ll warsh off my boots with wooder from the spicket outside, maybe wipe them off with a tal, and put them inside by the rattyator to dry off, while I sit down to watch the iggles game (go birds!) Maybe I’ll hit up my friend, and ask him “Jeet?” and he’ll reply, “No, jew?” so I’ll stop at Wawa and tap MAC so I can buy us some hoagies, probably paired with a lager, and maybe get some wooder ice or maybe some ice cream with jimmies for dessert.