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Originally Posted by Gilda
FYI: Shakespeare's plays and poems are written in Modern English. The Old English period ended circa 1100, and Middle English circa 1500.
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I'm aware the Old English is not related to Shakespeare, and it should further be noted that emoticons are, in much the same way, not related to leetspeak.
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Originally Posted by analog
Yeah... i'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Chatting kiddie shortcuts and leet-speak are not, in my opinion, at all beautiful, let alone comparable to real writing.
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What is "real writing" then? What about real writing makes it beautiful to you? Dictionary definitions include (from
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writing - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
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Alphabets vary greatly (Roman, Greek, Cyrillic, Kanji, Hirigana, et cetera). Numerical representations of
letters (def. 1a) should be accepted, if for no other reason than
Artistic License.
Also note that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".