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CrimesAgainstHumanity
Crew

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:35 am


Leet is a form of chat speak in chat rooms. The letters are replaced with
numbers like 1337. Since it is Internet lingo, it is commonly used in
forums like Gaia. However there are reasons you should not use it.

It does not make you look smart, because some Gaians like me can not
understand most Leet.

It gets annoying.
Hard to Read.


Now we can get on to Chatspeak.

Chatspeak is internet lingo that is commonly used in chat rooms, ever
since it is commonly used to else like in classrooms at Highschool.
S's are replaced by Z's to shorten the words. However chatspeak
does not look cool to Gaians who can not read it.

Examples:
Boys- Boiz
Girls- girlz, grlz, grrlz, gurlz
Mate- m8
Skater- sk8er
You- u
Are- r
Tonight- 2nite
Because- Bcuz
g2g- got to go
btw- by the way
btk - bit to kewl
teh-the
ic ic - i see i see
ic- i see

Sentence example:
Boi r u home 2nite Bcuz I wnt u?

leet speak example:
|-|3y |-|u||||!,|-|4v3 y0u 607 4||y 3><7r4 (45|-| 83(4u53 !m qu357!||6, 8u7 ! (4|| 6!v3 y0u 50m37|-|!||6 Ph0r !7 !Ph y0u x||0w w|-|47 ! m34||.

leet speak decoded:
hey hunni,have you got any extra cash because im questing, but i can give you something for it if you know what i mean.


So lets discuss!
PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:40 am


I agree. Newbie, don't be fooled. Using Chatspeak is not cool. Practically everyone doesn't like it. So let's try to use the full word instead of shortening it and adding numbers and whatnot.

viola385
Crew


CrimesAgainstHumanity
Crew

PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:00 am


viola385
I agree. Newbie, don't be fooled. Using Chatspeak is not cool. Practically everyone doesn't like it. So let's try to use the full word instead of shortening it and adding numbers and whatnot.



And the noobs look down on people who do not use chatspeak. Yeah
it makes the person seem a lot smart if they use the whole word.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:27 am


That kind of lingo is all fine and dandy (albeit annoying) in the chatterbox, but what really irks me is when it's used in the GD or ED. One way to get a lot of gaians to hate you is to talk like that in any forum except the chatterbox. Numbers are not letters. And just because this is the internet does not mean you can use internet speak.

Please and thank you ^_^

Duelriel


Yumitoko
Captain

PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:34 am


that is why i've just moved to the GD
PostPosted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:08 pm


Yumitoko
that is why i've just moved to the GD


The chatterbox gets annoying at times with the kinds of threads they have.
I seen things in there I wish I did wish to see.

They need to tone it down to pg-13 in themes and the grammar.

I can't believe people actually like to talk to people in Chatspeak.
This one girl in my English class she written a note to the teacher.
It was written partly in chatspeak. sweatdrop

CrimesAgainstHumanity
Crew


Yumitoko
Captain

PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:43 am


SexyGeishaLove
Yumitoko
that is why i've just moved to the GD


The chatterbox gets annoying at times with the kinds of threads they have.
I seen things in there I wish I did wish to see.

They need to tone it down to pg-13 in themes and the grammar.

I can't believe people actually like to talk to people in Chatspeak.
This one girl in my English class she written a note to the teacher.
It was written partly in chatspeak. sweatdrop
stupid!
teachers don't use chat speak!
and if you are writing in english why not do it properly?!
PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:01 am


Yumitoko
SexyGeishaLove
Yumitoko
that is why i've just moved to the GD


The chatterbox gets annoying at times with the kinds of threads they have.
I seen things in there I wish I did wish to see.

They need to tone it down to pg-13 in themes and the grammar.

I can't believe people actually like to talk to people in Chatspeak.
This one girl in my English class she written a note to the teacher.
It was written partly in chatspeak. sweatdrop
stupid!
teachers don't use chat speak!
and if you are writing in english why not do it properly?!


The girl goes to a different school now. She had issues really bad.
The teacher read it aloud.

I know! We're in English, just right proper. It gets annoying because
I do not know all the chatspeak terms.

CrimesAgainstHumanity
Crew

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