Who invented this stupid english??
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it was called leet speak. And invented by the gaming and/or warez community pretty much simultaneously (much of the communities overlap). It stands to date as (imo) the only wildly successful open (not quite source) community project that continues to evolve and keep up with current times.
kinar wrote:
warez community
Who? :confused:
My other signature is witty and insightful.
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kinar wrote:
warez community
Who? :confused:
My other signature is witty and insightful.
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
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This kind of writing.. Thanx 4 da gr8 work!!" And what do they exactly call it??
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
no 1 is 4cing u 2 use it, we cld <- प्रकृति ;P :laugh:
Spike Mulligan is at WW2 Conscription intake centre. Officer asks "Where you born Mulligan". "India, sir", Mulligan briskly replies. "Which part" asks the officer. To which Spike replies "All of me, sir".
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It's moron-speak, and guaranteed to make any employer or professional contact think very poorly of anyone observed using it. It is, however, rather handy when you're trying to communicate using one of those tiny, inconvenient devices that were meant to be spoken into, not typed.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
I disagree. Various "autospell" (a.k.a. prediction typing) features eliminate the need for the abhorrent, incessant, moronic, idiotic, asinine, brainless, mindless, dim-witted, senseless, dumb, imbecilic, absurd, pointless unintelligent "language" of text speak (I refuse to "abbreviate" it on principle). It takes a little training, but it's worth it to spell properly via SMS to convey you have an intelligence greater than that of moss growing on the underside of a slimy rock by the river. Text speak is a language invented by "tweens" and their ilk; and let's admit it here: when was the last time tweens knew what was best for society? Why do we let them dictate our mobile text language? It's grown to such popularity that when I receive automatic texts relating to some of my favorite TV shows (trivia, fun facts, etc.), THEY use "text speak" and it's all done by a computer! There's no need! :mad: This new "language" has contributed to the declining intelligence of today's youth; over-stimulation from the media, ready access to just about any information in the world at one's hands, available for lookup and never committed to memory, and now we don't even require them to spell properly! A fine grasp on one's native language, both spoken and written, is a fundamental component to any other advanced knowledge/intelligence in any subject manner. I expect that in 30 years time, the English language will officially dispose of multiple forms of "their"/"they're"/"there" (and similar words) in favor of the easiest to spell, sometimes sans a letter or two, simply because nobody knows which form is linguistically correct anymore. Don't even get me started on full QWERTY keyboards on mobile devices... It's an input device designed to be used by two hands, utilizing all 10 fingers, and it's all crammed onto a small device using - at most - 2 fingers? How can anyone have ever expected 100% equivalent efficiency with only 20% of the usability interface? Someone failed at math. But I digress on this; it's neither here nor there. I discovered this banner online a long time ago. I forget the original source, but I copied it to ImageShack and use it as a signature on many fora I visit: http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9958/antitxtbanner3roia4.gif[^]. I advise (encourage?) any and all of you to join the movement and stand up AGAINST inten
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it was called leet speak. And invented by the gaming and/or warez community pretty much simultaneously (much of the communities overlap). It stands to date as (imo) the only wildly successful open (not quite source) community project that continues to evolve and keep up with current times.
kinar wrote:
it was called leet speak.
That's l33t. See here: http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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no 1 is 4cing u 2 use it, we cld <- प्रकृति ;P :laugh:
Spike Mulligan is at WW2 Conscription intake centre. Officer asks "Where you born Mulligan". "India, sir", Mulligan briskly replies. "Which part" asks the officer. To which Spike replies "All of me, sir".
I hate to break it to you this way, but the BBC isn't a newspaper.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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kinar wrote:
it was called leet speak.
That's l33t. See here: http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I hate to break it to you this way, but the BBC isn't a newspaper.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Indeed the Bolshevik Bullshite Corporation is not usually regarded as a newspaper. Although I would point out that this tax payer funded, multi-media, agit-prop agency is not above stooping to practice of putting ink on paper, perhaps you're not familiar with the Radio Times. I'll grant, that in and of itself, the RT is not a newspaper, certainly not one of record. However it is not without its fellow travellers. At least one of its sister agencies engagees regularly, in fact daily, in that filthy business of chopping down the forests so as to condemn the entire universe to ruin by carbonation; whilst condemning everyone else for doing the same. I'm speaking, in hushed tones in case their listening, of that paragon of PC - The (formerly Manchester) Malevolency. But back to your comment, I was not aware that I made any reference, directly, indirectly or by association to the Bighorn Bugling Choir. And, to my uncertain knowledge, they don't peddle their misinformation, and mystical incantations in प्राकृत, or any other language of that ilk, such as पाणिनि . Please explain where I went wrong, at birth is not a valid answer :)
Spike Mulligan is at WW2 Conscription intake centre. Officer asks "Where you born Mulligan". "India, sir", Mulligan briskly replies. "Which part" asks the officer. To which Spike replies "All of me, sir".
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Indeed the Bolshevik Bullshite Corporation is not usually regarded as a newspaper. Although I would point out that this tax payer funded, multi-media, agit-prop agency is not above stooping to practice of putting ink on paper, perhaps you're not familiar with the Radio Times. I'll grant, that in and of itself, the RT is not a newspaper, certainly not one of record. However it is not without its fellow travellers. At least one of its sister agencies engagees regularly, in fact daily, in that filthy business of chopping down the forests so as to condemn the entire universe to ruin by carbonation; whilst condemning everyone else for doing the same. I'm speaking, in hushed tones in case their listening, of that paragon of PC - The (formerly Manchester) Malevolency. But back to your comment, I was not aware that I made any reference, directly, indirectly or by association to the Bighorn Bugling Choir. And, to my uncertain knowledge, they don't peddle their misinformation, and mystical incantations in प्राकृत, or any other language of that ilk, such as पाणिनि . Please explain where I went wrong, at birth is not a valid answer :)
Spike Mulligan is at WW2 Conscription intake centre. Officer asks "Where you born Mulligan". "India, sir", Mulligan briskly replies. "Which part" asks the officer. To which Spike replies "All of me, sir".
Unfortunately, the Radio Times isn't published by Auntie; it's independent of the Beeb. And it's Milligan, by the way, not Mulligan. Misspelling the name of such a genius comes pretty close to being unforgivable. I think I'll go back in time and talk to you parents -- just let me finish my meeting with Mr & Mrs Hitler, first.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Unfortunately, the Radio Times isn't published by Auntie; it's independent of the Beeb. And it's Milligan, by the way, not Mulligan. Misspelling the name of such a genius comes pretty close to being unforgivable. I think I'll go back in time and talk to you parents -- just let me finish my meeting with Mr & Mrs Hitler, first.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Thanks for pointing out the misspelling of Milligans name, I confess to the fact that it was cut & pasted from somewhere, I think it was The Spectator or perhaps The Telegraph. Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, is here somewhere. This is what appears at the bottom of the Radio Times home page
©BBC Magazines Ltd. The Radio Times word mark and logo are trademarks of BBC Worldwide Ltd.
BBC Magazines is owned by the BBC and our profits are returned to the BBC for the benefit of the licence-fee payer.Sure looks like the Beeb to me, I suppose it could be another BBC, the Billionaire Boys Club, or maybe Russian Air Force. Anyway, why did you feel compelled to inform me that the BBC didn't publish newspapers in the first place. I don't think they had newspapers when Ashoka was making his mark, that's why he did all them inscriptions on rocks and on pillars in Prakrit, he had no bloody newspapers back then, but he did have the good fortune not to have to share the planet with the Boringly Bilious Confederation.
Spike Milligan is at WW2 Conscription intake centre. Officer asks "Where you born Milligan". "India, sir", Milligan briskly replies. "Which part" asks the officer. To which Spike replies "All of me, sir".
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Thanks for pointing out the misspelling of Milligans name, I confess to the fact that it was cut & pasted from somewhere, I think it was The Spectator or perhaps The Telegraph. Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, is here somewhere. This is what appears at the bottom of the Radio Times home page
©BBC Magazines Ltd. The Radio Times word mark and logo are trademarks of BBC Worldwide Ltd.
BBC Magazines is owned by the BBC and our profits are returned to the BBC for the benefit of the licence-fee payer.Sure looks like the Beeb to me, I suppose it could be another BBC, the Billionaire Boys Club, or maybe Russian Air Force. Anyway, why did you feel compelled to inform me that the BBC didn't publish newspapers in the first place. I don't think they had newspapers when Ashoka was making his mark, that's why he did all them inscriptions on rocks and on pillars in Prakrit, he had no bloody newspapers back then, but he did have the good fortune not to have to share the planet with the Boringly Bilious Confederation.
Spike Milligan is at WW2 Conscription intake centre. Officer asks "Where you born Milligan". "India, sir", Milligan briskly replies. "Which part" asks the officer. To which Spike replies "All of me, sir".
urbane.tiger wrote:
Anyway, why did you feel compelled to inform me that the BBC didn't publish newspapers in the first place.
Hmm. A Millugan/Milligun/Muggilan fan, and you don't get progressive punchlining?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Whats worse is there are people who speak it. Yes, that's right, people actually sound out the abbreviations to make words, then use said words in conversation. As soon as those words end up in the dictionary, I'm moving and refusing to speak English ever again...
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