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by sgtmas2006 2936 days ago
It would, I wanted to do emotion analysis on them but the way my friends and I speak within discord is representative of a conversation, with convenience and spelling variances to declare the dialect something is supposed to be read in so it didn't really work out.

  [5:35 PM] zsh: sopranos in a bit?
  [5:38 PM] Adam: probably
  [5:57 PM] zsh: when
  [6:00 PM] zsh: ?
  [6:04 PM] Adam: whenever tuhe f8uclo i FEDEL LIKE
  [6:04 PM] zsh: im ready
  [6:04 PM] zsh: whenever
  [6:04 PM] Adam: ye thats cool
  [6:04 PM] zsh: im actually going to kill u
  [6:04 PM] Adam: gimme 5 i guess
  [6:04 PM] Adam: idk i just dont feel that hyped to watch it rn
  [6:05 PM] zsh: we can play bf1 idc
  [6:05 PM] Adam: ye i think play bf1 for a bit
  [7:45 PM] zsh: too much effort to get up
  [7:45 PM] zsh: no

  [7:56 PM] Adam: fucking mullinyan kids
  [8:24 PM] zsh: varsity athlete won
  [8:24 PM] Adam: rip bobby
  [8:26 PM] zsh: the bacala man stands true
  [8:27 PM] Adam: bacala vs a gun
  [8:27 PM] Adam: 
  [8:38 PM] zsh: yes
  [8:45 PM] zsh: my estimation of John sacrimoni as a man had plummeted
  [8:45 PM] Adam: what sort of don gets cancer
  [8:46 PM] zsh: the same one that cries
these are surprisingly common examples, being of lesser extremes. Varying capitalization and new lines are used as ways of carrying on a dialogue, instead of writing entire bubbles of text at once, producing the feeling of a conversation instead of reading e-mails. The second being an example of 'soprano-posting,' in which you use references to The Sopranos in an ironic manner. The first being a common conversation. Looking into the idea of trying to extract emotion from this accurately seems... impossible. Most of our writings are extremely foreign to those that aren't 'in the know' and seem almost hostile to one another, while in reality they aren't.

I'm curious if there has been analysis on this type of writing in general. It feels so much more efficient than 'traditional' writing styles.