Computer Language

Having played online games for a few years now and then, it recently occurred to me that there’s a plethora of online/computer abbreviations, phrases, meanings, etc. It’s like a language of its own. Numerous MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) are developed in Asian countries, with many having originated from Korea. One of my favorites, Dungeon Fighter Online, is hosted by devs from within South Korea. Although these games don’t support use of emojis or stickers, a lot of the time they use “text faces” such as  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). The link I posted has a lot of the meanings for some of the abbreviations that players may use in MMORPGs.

To Korean friends:

I like this gif, because it’s about how we started incorporating everything in our computers.

Here in the US, sports play a huge role in everything, education included. I'm a huge fan of basketball, so now that I have the chance to go to the games here at the university, I try to go to as many as I can (the guy in whute is from UTRGV, the ones in green are the other team). And it's not just basketball, we have many other teams (golf, soccer, tennis, baseball, track and field, etc), only that unlike many other American universities, we do not have football (the american version. I'm from Mexico, and to me football is soccer), and they all play a very big part of the college experience. Are sports also part of your college experience in Korea? Are they important to people, not necessarily school related?

To add to Carolina’s post about internet slang that is commonly used, I decided to add a few more:

For abbreviated expressions:

YOLO: You Only Live Once

TBH: To be honest

Idk: I don’t know

Smh: Shaking my head

TTYL: talk to you later

Nvm: never mind

BRB: be right back

ILY: I love you

omw: on my way

TMI: Too much information (oversharing)

Commonly seen as instagram’s hashtags:

mcm: man crush Monday (a person of the male sex that you feel attracted to, and thus post a picture of)

TBT: throwback tuesday/thursday

wcw: woman crush Wednesday (same as Monday, this time female)

FBF: flashback Friday

Others:

On point: is used interchangeably with “on fleek,” referring to something being perfect or great.

I literally can’t: when you’re overwhelmed with emotions and become unable to do anything

Literally: super commonly used, even when it does not mean anything literal (it’s so used that the dictionary added a new meaning: “not literal”)

Thirsty: references someone’s desperation or over-eagerness

Bye Felicia: originally used in the 1995 movie “Friday,” and is now used as an act of disrespect when somebody you don’t care about leaves the room

Swerve: calling someone out on a lie, or telling them to go away

Slay: to do or look amazing; it means you’re at the top of your game

Squad: a crew, posse, group of friends

What kind of English expressions like these do you guys use?

Here in the USA, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November every year. Typically, there’s no work/school on that day,so that they can have dinner with their families and friends, or whomever they choose to celebrate with, and then they get the “Black Friday” sales on the next day.

Personally, I started celebrating it around 4 years ago, as we don’t have this date in Mexico, but I usually go to my cousin’s house in Austin for dinner and to spend time with my family.

There’s the dinner, which is typically turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and pies, and we sit together, talk about what we’re thankful for, and spend time as a family.

Do you have any celebrations like this one? And last but not least:

Hello EunSol. The pictures above and on the bottom are some example of some slang that is use on social network.

The most common social networks for us are facebook, instagram and snapchat.

This is a list of some of the most common phrases used on our daily social networks:

Bae: Short for baby, is a love term for your boyfriend or girlfriend

On fleek: when something is perfect, this is mostly use by women.

Doe or Tho: use instead of the word though, is use to draw attention to something.

Basic: someone that is not interesting, not special.

Shade: when you insult someone.

Yas or Yass: is use to express high approval like the word yes. 

giving me life: when someone did something so good that impresses you

AF: is an abbreviation of the bad words As F**k , is used in place of very much.

squad: a group of friends

Fam: close people you trust

Goals: something you admire or desire

Netflix and Chill: having sex

Turn up: getting pumped up or very excited

Dope: super cool

BF: Best friend

WTF: abbreviation for what the F**k, use to express something you that surprises you in a bad way.

OMG: abbreviation for oh my GOD!

Jk: abbreviation for just kidding, when you don't said something seriously you were just playing.

To express laughter we use

LOL: abbreviation for laughing out loud

Haha: the sound of laughter (on English)

since we live close to Mexico we sometimes use JAJA which is the sound of laughter in Spanish.

-Carolina Cardenas

Hello EunSol. I am going to try to give you some information, if you have a question just ask me.

The picture above shows some of the most common emojis we use and when we use them.

We usually only use emojis, we don’t really use text emoticons like :(

I notice you guys use many stickers, but we don’t have many stickers on our cellphones so we don’t use them. And we don’t use Kaomoji because they are hard to make, only people who really likes manga or anime use kaomoji.

Emojis are very popular in our culture there is many merchandise with emojis like: purses, pillows, cookies and clothes.

Older people use very few emojis, the only emoji that they usually use is the happy face emoji.

Younger people loves emojis, they use emojis for every text. There is also a very popular game on the app store called Guess the emoji, many people play that game here.

We live really close to the border with Mexico and the same emojis are use in Mexico too.

One of the most popular cellphone applications is Whatsapp, this app is similar to your kakaotalk. With this app you can chat with people in other places for free. Many people in here and in Mexico use this app to communicate with each other.

Hello UTRGV friends~~~!! I want to tell something about the postings. I'm really glad that you guys are really good and are trying to be on intimate terms with us. But! We don't have any informations about America's computer and smartphone languages. Fews weeks later, DKU teams have final presentation. And we don't have anything to present. Would you plz give us any feedbacks or any informations?

Hello Korean friends. This week our university has registration for the classes of the next semester. Today was a long day for me because i woke up early to go online and select my classes before they get full. The picture above is a list of the classes required for my major which is Spanish, each semester we have to meet with an advisor who tells us which classes we have taken and which we need to take.  How is registration in your school? Do you register each semester? How do you select your classes?

Mabeli! How did you find that blog posting? It is really interesting~! But… unfortunately, some emoticons are really passé…..😅 Almost Koreans usually use android cellphones and there are some keyboard shortcuts! Probably 5~10 years ago, people used these emoticons. But nowadays we(young generations) don’t use that.. 😂😂

This picture is what I took in this afternoon. Our university have two side way to go up. One side is called ‘Cherry tree street’ and the other is called 'Ginkgo tree street’. That picture is the latter. Cause a cherry tree without flowers look so lonely. Hahaha 😊😊 But the former street is really beautiful in spring. I love the former street in spring and love the latter street in fall.

To our Korean friends, does this blog accurately describe your use of emoticons?

Have a great day!