http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Mental nerd shit.

The leet words 'pwnzor' and 'pwnxor' can be edited to say "pwnzor'd" or "pwnxor'd"

Humorous.

Its just so insane that these people have invented this crazy language, Leetspeak. Really insane.

what is wrong with these people!?

I hate people who bastardise the English language and I hate internet and text abbreviations even more.

'C U L8R!'



God!

Yeah its pretty horrible, all those years of school to just piss all the knowledge away on a WOW language that you cant even use in the real world.

I've become really intolerant of bad grammar in the past couple of years. I'm used to sitting in classes trying to speak Estonian or Russian and being constantly corrected, so it's kind of rubbed off on me. I correct my mum all the time, she fucking hates it.



So when I hear someone using the word 'owned', or worse still 'pwned', in public I really have to bite my tongue.

Metal Iain wrote: I correct my mum all the time, she fucking hates it.

It wind me up when my kids come home from school saying ain't and in't. I always correct them but they never remember!!! I also bollock them for talking while eating, chewing with their mouths open, not saying please and thank you on the odd occasions that they transgress, i just cant help it

It wasn't 'invented'

It's the product of several thousand people trying to type whilst playing an online computer game, the first time I heard anything 1337 was on CounterStrike, waaaaaaaaaaay years ago! It came about because if you're playing a game, it's kinda hard to spend ages writing and perfecting grammer, so abbreviations were made, sometimes wrong keys were hit (ie - owned becomes pwned..), etc... and that's all I can be arsed to type without sounding like more of a nerd!!! It's not my fault btw, loads of my friends have been computer geeks for years...

That's why I love this forum, everyone speaks properly (even Jamie... some of you should visit the Metalbrew forum some time and see what he's really like...), and there aren't any idiots. It's great!

A similar language to leetspeak was about back when i was a teenager too!! Ian and i used to speak it most saturday nights, and we were the only fuckers that knew what we were saying!! It was called pedigreespeak

thrash metal maniac wrote:It wasn't 'invented'

It's the product of several thousand people trying to type whilst playing an online computer game, the first time I heard anything 1337 was on CounterStrike, waaaaaaaaaaay years ago! It came about because if you're playing a game, it's kinda hard to spend ages writing and perfecting grammer, so abbreviations were made, sometimes wrong keys were hit (ie - owned becomes pwned..), etc... and that's all I can be arsed to type without sounding like more of a nerd!!! It's not my fault btw, loads of my friends have been computer geeks for years...

yeah its really hard to type when playing internet games,especially when you have some dude swinging a big axe at you.

3qq7 pwns j00 hax0r 57y13

i r pwn all 0f teh bases. tr00. !!!11!!1one



how can you not find it amusing?

The Fourth Norseman wrote:how can you not find it amusing?

Because I have an IQ above 13?

Metal Iain wrote:

The Fourth Norseman wrote:how can you not find it amusing?

Because I have an IQ above 13?

your words hurt...