Internet grammar and funny mistakes

[Melooon]

I had a funny conversation with my mum today after I realised she always seemed confused after I'd correct a typo with a closing "

For example:
I went to the shop and gone so bread
got some"

It prompted me to ask if she understood that a closing comma meant typo correction, and she did not. Apparently she thought that three dots indicated a typo correction (which to me would indicate an awkward pause...)

I went to the shop and gone so bread
got some...

So the flip side was that whenever she corrected a typo I'd read it as something like "got some .. Uhhh Im so sick of these dang typos  "

It made me realise that for many years Iv been completely misinterpreting how she speaks online or in group chats in a subtle but quite significant way!

I wondered if anyone else had funny grammar experiences or questions about online grammar use and instant messaging social rules that they wanted to discuss?

[larvapuppy]

I've always used an asterisk to indicate a typo correctiom!
Correction*

 

This isn't really a grammar thing, but when I first started using the internet I wasn't very emoticon savvy. By that point I was familiar with the basic ones like :), :P, :/ and even :3. But one day I came across the <3... And using my prior knowledge of :3, I read it as a cat closing its single eye.    I didn't learn that it stands for a heart until a few months later!

[TheNothingMonster]

I recall mistaking a purposely false-typed sentence in English (intended for comedic effect) for a phrase from my mother tongue. The user who had typed this clearly did not speak my mother tongue and it took me an embarrassing while to realise it.

I also keep on confusing common internet abbreviations (e.g.: tbh, smh, ofc)* on occasion. I still can't understand half of them and I often end up reading sentences in wrong tones. I appreciate it when people take their time to type the full phrase, ha ha!

*(to be honest, shaking my head, of course)

[shevek]

I always enjoy seeing what is often called the boomer dots (at least among the people around me), as well as the boomer quotes. My girlfriend's step mum is notorious for this and it has created many memes in that family.
She will post a status somewhere and it's like:

Having "pancakes" with the "family" .... "Happy" Weekend....

And she doesn't realize how ominous or threatening it can sound or how that makes it seem as if none of that is happening, that none of it is pancakes, that this isn't even her family. Every new status like that is a surefire banger in that regard.

[Memory]

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