aculleninaway:

I won’t be quoting any individuals in my report, just statistics such as “over half of female users over the age of 16 answered x”. I would really appreciate it if anyone takes the 5 mins to fill this out as it will be so helpful in analysing online speech for my project :)…

 1. Age: 20
2. Sex: F
3. Nationality: Lithuanian
4. Languages you speak: English, Lithuanian, French, Spanish

5. Mothertongue/First language: Lithuanian
6. Tumblr user since: Around March 2010
7. Do you agree that ‘tumblr language’ (certain terms/vocab and ways of saying things particular only to tumblr) exists? No.

Section 2:

8. a) Do you recognise the following terms as being part of ‘tumblr language’?
b) Do you understand them?

Please answer (a) by typing yes or no after each term and answer (b) by bolding the ones you do understand. e.g. ambiguous no

Gpoy no
Otp no
rn no
Idgaf/look at all the fucks I give! yes

Anons. yes
[The] Dash. yes
[to] Rage no
[to] Ship no

DYING no

RELEVENT no
THIS no

asdfghjkl no

fuuuu- no
hnng no
Unf no

Cool story bro no
Forever reblog yes
I can’t even/what is life etc. no
Perfect human being yes
Tumblr famous yes
What is air yes
Your argument is invalid no
You’re doing it right no
Me gusta no

Section 3:

 9. Are there other terms you feel should be included in this list? Please list them:

10. Do you use any ‘tumblr language’ in ‘real life’? If yes, please list terms you use: Yes.

11. Do non-tumblr users understand you when you use them? If they use other sites on which “tumblr” terms are used.

12. Any other comments you would like to add?

Most of the terms aren’t exclusive to tumblr.

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