The lack of proper english.

[shiato storm]

um, what is this "l33t" thing mean? I have no clue at all...

[Zak33]

Cr4ig mate....we know..and we agree....

in fact..more power to ya.

Same goes for all the positive input into this thread...its a crap thing, to txt type on a forum...typos are BOUND to happen...we all know....its cool...but I agree on all points.

Cesium is also right tho.....tbh and iirc and that kinda thing....its part of life

sorry....but its troooooooo

[Zak33]

um, what is this "l33t" thing mean? I have no clue at all...

its stands for

LEET

which is a bastardised version of ELITE...

so if you are L33t then you are ace/numero uno at the subject

H3Xu5 ro><orz joor Bo><orz cos it's L33t

that makes me ANGRY

[Angus]

Er, it's now Exus, actually!

thought it might have been hxs

[shiato storm]

ah i sor tof get it...so really the people that use that utterly ridiculous 'language' are those that sit at computers all day...
conjours up the image of those geeks from the simpsons, especially the scientist

[Elmo]

my little cousin talks to me on msn using "txt tlk" it pees me off, oh and she has excessive "!!!!!!!!!!!!!"s or "??????????"s after every sentence. I just tend to ignore her

[loki]

I must admit that i quite often use abreviations, such as tbh, lol etc. but i text, type and talk all in the same manner. I try to always be polite and speak, text, type in proper English.

edit: just because i try doesnt say that i am always right, the only problem is that when i talk i cant go back and edit like this .

[floppybootstomp]

alright, this seems like a good thread to ask something in....

maybe I is ignorant, thought I knew most abreviations, but what does 'iirc' stand for?

I know, I know.....

As for spelling mistakes, if I make one, it's often a difficult choice between leaving it as it is or editing it and getting the dreaded 'edited by' text at the bottom of the post

[Angus]

iirc - if I remember correctly
tbh - to be honest

[Lead_Head]

But your name is in this so called "l337 speak"... Cr4iG... since when is a 4 an A ?
Maybe you should get some kip and re-read ya post

I understand what you mean, it seems to be coming continuously from the same people... does get on my nerves a bit. Although, I do tend to type how I speak

[Howard]

I always use acronyms like tbh, brb, lol, etc. But the rest of the time I don't shorten my words.

[Kezzer]

I think it helps in the long run. One thing that annoys me is people who don't know how to use their theirs, they're and there. It's really quite simple.

Or people that call their RAM 'twinmoss'. That quite literally makes me laugh. Learn to use your capital letters. Acronyms _should_ be in uppercase. All acronyms i use in computer terms are always in upper case. For example 'mhz' should be 'MHz'.

[Howard]

Yep. It's surprising how many people make simple English mistakes.

One thing that hacks me off the most is people who put damn inverted comma's after words like that!! "My PC's are all running Windows", for example. Or "I have twin monitor's". ARGH!!

[21:55:40] Howard [kthx: can i just ask
[21:55:51] Howard [kthx: why do you abbreviate your words to the point
where it's very difficult to read
[21:56:12] mi dj cum to: corse its da way i say em
[21:56:26] Howard [kthx: so saying "lyk" is different from "like"?

Someone on my MSN list who abbreviates every word, and that's no exageration. Lol.

[p0lish]

wut u talkin bout ?
dun see any "improper english" here
dis aint britannica forums u know

j/k - I try using proper English to the best of my abilities, even though it is my second language.

[Stewart]

yup what is the point, i mean it doesnt take any longer to add a couple of letters to words to make them 'correct' dnt u thnk?

mark

About as long as it takes to start a sentence with a capital letter, don't you think?

LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!111!! i pwned u with dat coment!!!1!!11!!

Seriously though, a while back, I had a brief word with David about this, and even wrote a quick guide on how to post properly, and not end up looking like a 'l33t dude'; nothing came of it though.

[MiniMarc]

j/k - I try using proper English to the best of my abilities, even though it is my second language.

That's also a good point, you actually make an attempt to write correctly and obviously think carefully about what you post whereas a lot of people these days just mash the keyboard in the vain hope that something remotely resembling English ends up on the screen.

I must admit that if you look at a lot of my posts on the forum, I am guilty of spelling mistakes and you'll see the last edited underneath a lot of them and again most of the reasons I give are doody speeling. But I'd rather admit to spelling things incorrectly and actually corrected them rather than post something where people struggle to understand what I have typed.

Another annoyance of mine is the whole dyslexia thing. I know a lot of genuine dyslexics, hey 5 of my cousins are (seems to be a defective gene or something on my dad's side of the family that out of all my uncle/aunt's/parent's children all of them have dyslexia apart from my sister and i) and what you will find with genuine dyslexics are that they try extremely hard to spell correctly and form coherent sentences, often typing things up in word to make use of the spell/grammar checker before pasting it onto something such as a forum. This I applaud, what does annoy me are the people who are either too lazy to spell properly or didnt actually take time out of their busy schedule as children to learn how to speak, read and write properly who use the world dyslexia as an excuse for spelling badly.

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