Another post in my series of "I am tired of answering this question and wrote this so I can just paste a link to it.
The why is, I am mocking something. Very often I will have taken some @*#$*@ nonsense and transformed it into worse nonsense. To put it another way, if you say something willfully ignorant, I assume that your native language is gibberish am trying to talk to you so you'll understand.
Now to the how.
The simplest method is just to hit keys at random.
A method that generates texts that almost look meaningful is to use my phone's predictive text and just accept one of the suggested words or emojis at random. If a phrase emerges from the randomness it may be because my phone has learned to recognize frequent word-pairs, e.g. personal incredulity.
Sometimes I'll copy the text to which I'm responding, paste it, and mangle the words. I will sometimes free-associate into song lyrics, pick similar-sounding words, any meaning you think you detect is probably apophenia.
And then there are gibberish generators. Lorem Ipsum generators. general gibberish generators, scientific nonsense generators. The disassociated-text command in Emacs or websites that do something similar.(these also take the text I'm mocking as input). Sometimes, if what I'm satirizing is in a language other than English. I'll see if I can find a nonsense generator in that language, here's a recent French one that I used.
And for when what I'm replying to made overuse of emojis, a Random Emoji Generator
Reactions tend to be
- are you drunk/stoned? (Maybe, but that's not why)
- are you OK? (I'm possibly in better mental health than the person I'm mocking, but feel free to decide for yourself)
- are you schizophrenic? (No, but see the link for apophenia, the term first appeared in a study of early stages of the disorder)
- the shock/wow reaction emoji (I don't know if you're scared or impressed)
- attempting to interpret the gibberish as meaning something (ok ...)
- religious screeds or quotes from scripture (I'm sure you won't be offended if I apply the same procedure to your latest comment)
- Why bother? (I enjoy it)
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