dis G4/\/\3 sUxx0rs!!1!

[Keldorn]

there, got your attention.
Here\'s a little piece of literature that kinda fits the message we are sending out in relation to grammar on this forum.

enjoy!

L337 SP34K

Idiocy. Honestly, I can\'t stand it. Diversity of race, colour, preference, sex, ethnic origin, religious or political theory, and all else, I can tolerate. I\'m fine with people who can\'t help being stupid. But blatant, outright ignorance, just pisses me off. If you\'re looking for a constructive point herein, go away now. This is me at one in the morning, after attempting some semblance of conversation with another person over ICQ.

LOL I KIK U I M L337! U R NOT U SUXXORS!!

\"L337SP34K - LeetSpeak - Elite Speak\"

I despise this. Utterly. Entirely. And it even comes in several distinctly detestable flavours.

First, the good old Chat Moron stuff, which acts as a base for the rest. Lol. Rofl. Brb. Imho. Respectively, these are Laugh Out Loud, Roll on the Floor Laughing, Be Right Back, In My Humble Opinion. Crafted, because these lengthy phrases were being used a great deal in chats and forums, twenty years ago. These are now a plague of online society.

Hop onto IRC. You will not find a channel anywhere, that doesn\'t have someone who types LOL at least every two lines, if not after every word. How are you doing lol? That\'s so funny lol. U SUK lol. Are we to take it that people actually laugh out loud that often, as they sit alone in a room typing into a computer? There must be an amazing number of helplessly euphoriatic people in the world. The word has gone from meaning something, to meaning nothing, to being something you attach at the end of a sentence when you\'re too lazy to properly construct a point lol. Rofl? Much the same, but seen less. IMHO? Attached to anything controversial, because stupid people think that stating something is solely their opinion, gives it more credibility. Little words that mean nothing, used by stupid people, who think it makes them sound more like they know what they\'re doing online. I avoid people who use these words. If it can be helped, I sever social connections with them. People who use \"LOL\" should be sterilized at puberty to prevent procreation.

KIK. U. M. R. Hey, there\'s an idea. Let\'s show off how intelligent we are, by taking simple three and four letter words, and turning them into one letter words. I mean, all the trouble we would have to go to to type them normally, can you imagine? Pressing one key, and then another two more? Geeze. All that effort. This is where laziness turns into idiocy. If you\'ve been typing for a while, it takes more effort to hit U instead of typing out \"You\". If you haven\'t been typing for a while, you sure as hell aren\'t doing yourself any favours by learning that way. Why is this done? It\'s something intentionally wrong, which takes more time to accomplish, or shaves a quarter of a fraction of a third of a second off. Poo. Why? Because idiots on the internet again, think it makes them cool, and net savvy. Sterilization? No no no, my friend. Death, for this level of offense.

PH34R /\\/\\E!!!!! - Fear Me! - This is the worst of it all. Outright idiocy. Hey, let\'s not just spell things wrong, let\'s go to the effort of figuring out numbers that look sort of like letters, and weird collections of ansi character, and symbols we get when we hold down option/alt! Look at us! We\'re so cool because we\'re Elite! Elite! Elite! Elite, damnit! If someone tells you, in any form, over the net, that they are Elite, dismiss them immediately. It is the self-label of this bane of society, who would rather take ten minutes to type out a post they think looks cool, than hammer in a three second reply. Dismiss them. Label them an idiot. Hell, do it literally. Take a big staple gun, make a nice cardboard sign reading \"Idiot\", hunt them down, and staple it to their scalp, to warn others. It\'s like these people want everyone to know just how doped up on pot and PCP they are, without being there to see them in person. So you\'d be doing them a favour, by pointing them out to everyone. The only, and I swear, only thing worse than this, is people who actually talk in this manner. People who actually say \"Lol\" outloud, or TyPe iN aLtErNaTiNg cApS. Fortunately, however, if you fall into this category, no punishment need be extracted. Carrying on in this manner clearly indicates that you are headed for a major narcotic overdose, which will, as our dear friend Darwin has told us, remove the defects you hold from the Gene Pool.

And so that is that. If you are a normal person, capable of communicating without traipsing into what is outlined above, good for you. Live long and Prosper. And please, Breed as much as possible, to ensure that your good genes are carried forward. If you fall into the first two bad categories, please, while you still have some semblance of intelligence, do humanity a favour, and abstain from any action which would lead to you having offspring. And if you should fall prey to the L337 SQU4D oF OMG U SUK PH34R ME SP34K3rz . . . You have my personal assurances, that I shall pray for your deaths, routinely.

And on one final note: Colour is spelt with a U.

[cmhitman]

LOL

[Link]

There was a guy named \"d00d\" in the Planeshift chatroom last night. I asked him if he was a 1337 d00d or just a d00d. He said \"i r 1337 at cs\". It\'s very sorry.

[Kahlisi]

In other parts of the world (outside UK/Europe) where English is spoken frequently, it is not \"colour\", it is \"color\".  Based on regional differences, I do not correct someone when they spell it with a \"u\" nor do I appreciate people telling me the way I spell it is incorrect.

Furthermore, in illustration of my point, look at the differences between: Old English, Middle English, and Modern English.  Chaucer differs from Shakespeare, Shakespeare differs from Poe and so on.  To say there is only one true form of English would be closed-minded and near uneducated at best.  And if one disagrees with such a point, then by all technical rights we should be speaking like:

\"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour...\"

Languages evolve with the passage of time and slang.  Prime example: do we still say \"A pox on you!\" when angered at another?  No, we tell them to fondle/suck/kiss publically unmentionable body parts.  Hence the evolution of speech.

On another subject, I WHOLLY agree with idiotic way people use \"1337 sp34k\" and internet abbreviations.  Sadly, it may cause an epidemic of essays written with \"LOL\" and \"IMHO\" across the world (or the English speaking parts, at least).

Lastly, Keldorn, your entire rant is absolutely hysterical - especially the sterilization at puberty part.  

[elKano]

In other parts of the world (outside UK/Europe) where English is spoken frequently, it is not \"colour\", it is \"color\".

Do not generalize too much.
But you are right in some way: there are two internationally recognized ways to spell english: US and UK.
There are many examples of this, like \'colour/color\', \'fulfil/fulfill\', or \'foetus/fetus\'.

The cause is that many american colons of the beginning were illetrate.

The consequence is that many students of english all over the world are confused and write hybrid US/UK texts, so they have bad marks and they dislike english more and more.

[FyreBlade]

great post keldorn, sums up my feelings exactly. i could almost SEE you sitting there ranting at your keyboard. I know in most RPG\'s, especially online, i HATE it when an elf/dwarf comes up to me waving a sword and goes \"1 A/\\/\\ 733t! gIvE mE yOuR g0ld\" etc. If i\'m playing an RP game online, it\'s cuz i want to RP, not talk to some idiot missing brain cells who wants to take some of mine. I know that in PS, due to a) the fact that the game is free b) the huge audience that is being catered to c) the fact that there is only one set of servers (unlike NwN for example) which means there is only ONE world for all kinda of people to play on, we can\'t ask people to roleplay nor enforce it. but it would be really REALLY nice if we didn\'t have any \"733t\" idiots running around ruining the game for the rest of us. that\'s my two (or three, or for....) cents.......or tria......whatever....

edit: o, and i beg to differ on spellings. depending on what kind of english is in your area, different spellings are acceptable.

[Remuz]

Hi everyone, I\'m new here, and I registered in order to be able to answer to your posts.

What many of you seem to forget  is that not everyone can speak english. If I agree with you about the whole lol thing, you may not despise people who do not speak your language.

English is the most spoken language on the internet, that\'s a fact, but imagine if french was most spoken (yes, I\'m french if you wanted to know).
Would you like to be despised because of how you said things and not because of what you said? Can the languages you can and can not speak make you more or less valuable and interesting?

I hope not. For me, what people say is a lot more important than how they say it.

\"T0 B3 Or |\\|07 70 B3\" doesn\'t have zero value for me.

That\'s all, please be indulgent with me, as I already stated, english is not my primary language.

[Kiern]

I think what makes people more mad is when people purposely mispell things...not if their just not perfect with English

[Keldorn]

exactly, people that type like that do it because they think it makes them look cool, not because they don\'t know how to spell.

Cause really, only people who know their english can mutilate a sentence like that.

[Switchtlse]

Ok, What\'s the deal down here ? Just complaining about people using words that do not fit in the sentence ?
Well, I won\'t bother to argue on such non sense for I\'m not used to wasting my time but, since I was given such a link by a \'friend\' of mine (Indeed, I use the \'lol\' u scorn and I laugh out loud, alone in my dark den. What do u wanna do to people like me ? I would just say : come get some !). So, you were talking about breeding ? Well, I hope your \'spawn\' won\'t be as simple as u r because simple men make simple thoughts...
The last, but not the least : Pointing at any language mistake would be pointless because I\'m neither English, nor American (for God\' sake I would say dicovering such amasing thoughts) and, I do not need to write down some bullshit to select my contact list.

[Keldorn]

Got it out of your system? Good. I\'m happy for you. Hope you can sleep somewhat better tonight.

[Jessyn]

ah yes, the plague of the L337. if you can find it, there is a highly amusing flash production entitled R0M30 and J00L13T, or something along those lines.  I have no problem with people spelling things the American way(color) or the Canadian/British way(colour).  Remuz, I think for the most part, we have no problem with people who are not very fluent in English, or make the occasional typo.  The ones we have a problem with are, as Keldorn so eloquently put it

people that type like that do it because they think it makes them look cool, not because they don\'t know how to spell.

anyways, enough ranting, let us just all bite our thumbs at them, shall we?

Jessyn

[Ravette]

... I never have, and never will use the abreviation \'lol\'. I\'ve never found it to be fitting for me, but I don\'t think bad about people who do use it. As for the typing with letters, it is annoying, and makes reading a sentence take way more time than it should. Those are the kind of people I usually ignore just so that I wont have to see it from them in the future.

[JellyWerker]

To bad the english laguage is degrading to this, ah, the good old shapespeareian day\'s: hark, for sooth this spoken tongue beth corrupted from thousts everyday proper english.

[Myrtl]

Ohhh, now i got a headach...

*runs to get advil*

I dont understand