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Originally Posted by Irishsean
I think its hilarious when people bash leet speak. Sure, a lot of it is ridiculous and overdone, but pretty much all the commonly used, even by older people who laugh at leet, slang comes from it.
How many of the people who make fun of it use smilies, or say lol or rofl.  |
I'll disagree with that statement. The examples that you used are all shorthands. Smilies are there to add emotional inflection.
There is nothing shorthand about 'leet; in fact, many of the 1337 words require the typing of more characters than the original words. 1337 speak is about making your words more difficult to read unless you are "part of the elite group"; but, you then realize that that group is made up of 13 year old boys, and so you stop typing like a monkey with a sugar rush.