oh like anybody cares bout education

[smileyeagle1021]

slightly off topic... but reading this thread, has anyone else been hearing
we don't need no education
in their heads

[Princess-Snake]

Well, I do now thanks to you.

[Nyoibo]

Now, kids, if you want to be incomprehensable and look like you have at least one functioning brain cell, 533k 1337.

Don't you mean 5p34k 1337?

[PepperElf]

hmmm sounds like any day in my favorite chat room when a newbie comes in.


though we also get the little kiddies feeling their first arousal who try to cyber with anything breathing.
and how angry they get when they start to realize the other chatters in the room aren't there to aid them with one-hand typing. talk about entitlement whores

[jedimaster91]

Don't you mean 5p34k 1337?

Yeah, that one. Speeling* was never my strong suit.

*Yes, that's misspelled on purpose.

[Kogarashi]

Yeah, that one. Speeling* was never my strong suit.

*Yes, that's misspelled on purpose.

Well, maybe one should first seek the l33t inside them before they attempt to speak it with others.

[bainsidhe]

Okay, I had to stop reading partway through. But I have to wonder how old this person is. I mean, people SAY they're older, but then you find out they're something like ten years old. Just saying.

And the text-speak. Egads. Someone I work with occassionally uses this in her emails. It hurts to read even a single sentence, because I don't text and I certainly don't speak/write that way. Last time she was doing it, I tattled to a supervisor. Well, I actually emailed her and her boss, asking her to please write in full words, since the shortened versions were hard to understand. She's recently started doing it again, so I'll be sending another email requesting responses in actual words. Do U C? Thanks.

[jedimaster91]

Well, maybe one should first seek the l33t inside them before they attempt to speak it with others.

That's just what I get for trying to be clever. And I really only have a basic handle on it from what I've picked up on teh interwebz. Although I get less of a headache reading 1337 than text speak.

[Kogarashi]

That's just what I get for trying to be clever. And I really only have a basic handle on it from what I've picked up on teh interwebz. Although I get less of a headache reading 1337 than text speak.

Oh, I wasn't ragging on you. More making a play on what you originally typed, which could be "Seek leet" instead of "Speak leet." Don't worry.

I'm actually pretty good at reading l33t, and don't get much of a headache from it, but it's still much easier and less irritating to read real English.

[Bella_Vixen]

I almost cried. Seriously.

[PhotoChick]

Color me not surprised. I take online community college classes. Its always a good mix of people, some students right out of high school, 1 or 2 high schoolers and mostly older people going back to school. I think its mostly older people because of the convenience of online classes. Despite the instructions and such clearing stating, use normal words 1 or 2 people still use txt to introduce themselves. Its usually and 18 or 19 year old straight out of high school but this semester I was surprised to find it was not the high school senior but a 23 year old guy.

[LibraryLady]

Although this sounds completely nuts, I can believe it.

We've had college students (in honor classes) in the Library who don't know how to use the index in a book. I've written here about the student in her third year of College who didn't know what an Editor was. I've written about the excellent scholar who couldn't read the title page of a book properly.

My mind boggles and I weep for the future. It's things like this that make me happy I'm getting old.

[Setsunaela]

That whole thing was difficult to read, and one of my best friends types like that all of the time too.. It's ridiculous the way that teens nowadays talk, and I'm only 21! >.<
Though my little brother (age 15) is like a one-man-army fighting this habit, mostly because he's dyslexic and it's nearly impossible for him to decipher.

also, for the record, almost EVERY cell phone nowadays comes with a handly little feature called T9. You push buttons once and it computes and guesses what you are typing. Like for example, to say "like" you'd press, for regular texting, 555 444 55 33, but with T9 it's just 5453. Therefore it's even MORE lazy to use T9 and type words properly than it is to use "txt spk"

[protege]

and think using incomprehensible 'net-speak' somehow makes them superior to everyone else.

In reality...it makes them look like a fucking moron We sometimes would get people in the chat room like that. They'd insist on using "AOL-speke," particularly the "ASL" crap, and then get upset when I'd tell them to knock it off. Still, it was satisfying to throw them out of the room

I mean, some spelling mistakes I can understand, especially from people who don't speak English as a first language. Those folks, I tend to cut some slack. At least they're making an *effort,* which is more than I can say about some of the morons in this country. Hell, quite a few of them speak English better than people who live here

However, I have no sympathy for the l337 idiots. Again, it doesn't make you look cool. Instead, it makes you look like a fucking moron.

[Becks]

also, for the record, almost EVERY cell phone nowadays comes with a handly little feature called T9. You push buttons once and it computes and guesses what you are typing. Like for example, to say "like" you'd press, for regular texting, 555 444 55 33, but with T9 it's just 5453. Therefore it's even MORE lazy to use T9 and type words properly than it is to use "txt spk"

I utterly despise that feature. 95% of the time, it "guesses" wrong.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.