I Don't Know... Call Me Old Fashioned, but

[Brian R.]

It drives me crazy when people abbreviate three- or four-letter words with fewer symbols or letter combinations (cya, m8, sux etc). Is it too much to ask to type them out for clarity? Come on...

[cjolley]

1 h8 1t 2!
chuck

3tc. not etc.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Hey Brian... (a message from last night)


Elvis[MU] Brian R. Wrote:12/18/00, 3:31 AM
Got to go Liz. Need some sleep

[MPE]Lizzard Wrote:12/18/00, 3:31 AM
ok.. Good night

Elvis[MU] Brian R. Wrote:12/18/00, 3:31 AM
cya


lol~You were saying Brian?~

[ayoub_ibrahim]

thank goodness I'm not dyslexic,but even so, I sometimes faulter with some combinations of letters and/or numbers!

[Brian R.]

If that's the only example you could find of mine, that's pretty lame Liz...

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Damn your good.....haha...... yep, that was the only one.. it just happened to be the first and last one you wrote.. oh well..
i'll leave you alone today

[cerb]

At least there's no-one here (well, no-one I've seen yet) that uses the hax0r speak.

Stuff like:
My l337 sk1llz 0wnz0r j00!

It's funny for about 2 seconds, then gets kind of stupid. It's usage seems mostly limited to 14-16 year olds, so I guess that's why it's not seen much here.

[Pace]

Cerb: Everyone knows it's 1337 anyway

We use it once in a while, though I don't know why it's called h4xx0r talk, I know of no h4xx0rs that use it

Paul.

[dZeus]

when I suffer from insomnia (is that the right word for the illness that prevents you from sleeping?), I always join a q3a server with some punks talking like that... it tires me more than reading the phonebook.

Well.. at least, that is what I would do when I would suffer from insomnia!

[Gurm]

It's not really haXX0r talk, it's used more commonly by what my friend Maddog and I used to call "Warez Pupz".

You see (he waxes poetic), there were these three kids at the college where we used to go (and still loitered when we weren't working). And these three kids (quite obviously freshmen, judging from their lack of things to keep them busy) spent all their time in the computer lab, sending each other k00L messages like:

"D00dz, did you check out the L33t new Photoshop 4? It's K-RADD, huh?"

"Yeah. I bernt it to a CD last night with my L33+ new burner!"

"Kickass. Did you get the new Win98 beta?"

"Yeah, it's pretty L33t. I haven't installed it yet though, I don't want to mess up my Kewl burner."

Oh well, it was funnier if you were there. Also they'd talk like this in the hallways and bathroom. We're pretty sure they were doing it just so people would think they were... how to put this... "L33+".

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[agallag]

DWN WTH VWLS!!

That's my kind of abbrev.

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Andrew
Carpe Cerevisi

[I'm 7k!!]

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[Brian R.]

What a nightmare!

[cjolley]

I'M, is there any paint left on your <Alt> key?
chuck