Mind your gs and qs

I'm not going to be the person who tries to single-handedly beat down linguistic close-mindedness so this blog is going to be less about criticism and more about appreciation of linguistic phenomena.

The word "morniqq" was trending on twitter a few days ago and I delved deeper into the twittersphere only to discover that there is a whole subgroup of tweeters (and facebookers, as I have found) that replace gs with qs.

AWESOME!!
How cool is it that we can stylize our language and have it still retain value? Fuckinq awesome. Ever since we could communicate on the internet with AIM 1.0 we've been trying to think up innovative ways to make our text stand out using the only tools we have: the text itself. ReMeMbEr ThIs? Or did u type lyk thiis? Maybe you were too xxhardcorexx for that. Maybe you were a l33t h4x0r. We *still* do it (see what I did there!)

 I mean purely from a graphical standpoint that rules. q is much cleaner than g. g has a weird hook/blob thing at the bottom of it and q is a circle and a line. Clean and simple. This group has figured out a way to style their text using elements they already have BUILT INTO THE FUCKING ALPHABET to make what they say both mean something and look cool.

Remember those xs in your screenname in middle school? This is like that except instead of using letters to make words look nifty by accentuating them and adding additional flourish, this sticks that style right in the fucking middle (or end) of the goddamned word. No extra shit necessary (well, there is, but I'll get to that later)
check this shit:

This lady is a hard-working mamma with style.

Then I looked a little deeper and found that this q-as-g phenom is utilized in much more stylish writing. There's a trend on twitter where people duplicate the last few letters or vowels in a word. Cheqq it:

D:

This is a lot heavier and slower to read and I usually find myself reading it in a really drawn-out head voice. Still awesome, though. Repetition of letters just looks cool and that's enough justification it needs. 

Lastly I bring you this,

q as g, z as s, i as y, omission of vowels and at the end, who even knows. BUT I STILL LOVE IT SOOOOOO MUCH!

Sometime you should look up "omq" or "qood morniqq" on twitter or youropenbook.org and see what cool trends are popping up left and right.

CHEQQ YA'LL L8R