HONESTLY! This is why I love TFP...
 

I love that with the exception of a few Aussies on this board, I can generally understand the posts made on TFP. This isn't true for every other board I read, and I usually end up back here because of that..

Can anyone even translate this? I pride myself on being able to decipher the most l33t of l33t, but this is ridiculous:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35350

A few snippets:

I REALLY wish they still taught grammar in school..

I will tell you this much....cause that kind of typing gives me a headache

if you dont understand english (as in England) slang you wont get most of it. Of course they need help in spelling and punctuation too :lol:

Here's another good one..

They seem to be engaged in some kind of pre-soccer game hooliganism ritual :). Manu is Manchester United football club (soccer team) - that was recently acquired by an American ...

drewpy's on it: fergie is sir alex fergesson (sp?) who used to own man u. the made yank is the owner of the tampa bay bucs. the second part is an arrangement for convenient ass whippage followed by drinks.

Yeah it's more of a slang thing than l33t speak. Just a subculture you/we arn't appart of, it's no surprise we can't understand them too well as you wouldn't expect to understand a different language (even if it's similar like english and spanish).

I understood it perfectly, sounds pretty normaly for conversations from my neck of the woods.

I also understood it perfectly, but then I'm a regular reader of Irvine Welsh, who makes you sludge through all the slang. Oh, and I follow English football pretty closely, which helped.

The fact that they are Man Utd fans shows that they aren't the most educated people in the world. :)
I'm English and I still had to concentrate to make heads or tails of it. They must not look at the screen while typing and then just hit 'reply' without seeing what they have actually written

People from newcastle have the funniest grammer. Sorry people from the toon. love it!

sounds like something chelsea fans would say

That is pretty bad. Take consolation in the fact that it's on a Battlefield 2 forum...which means that I am killing these guys one by one during my free time. :thumbsup:

-Lasereth

It's grammar.

Sorry people... from the toon?

I hope you meant: Sorry, people from The Toon.

I give up brian, see me after class.


p.s. The Kingdom of Northumberland was once the most powerful place in the British Isles and the foundation of the country now known as England.

Therefore, I think you'll find that it's me what taaks propa, not yees. Reet?

Close! I'm an Arsenal fan! :D

aha! I knew it was one or the other :D

Chelsea fans and Gunner fans always start the smack against Man Utd.

must be jealousy or something

:p

:lol: :lol: :lol: Somebody made me laugh out loud today!

alreet, you got me. Come on now jackie, you having to understand its hard to type with one hand while the other is trying to stop your kid from killing the family pet. Do I have to stop posting on the tfp do to my typo/grammEr errors?

looks like normal gamer speak... it's like another language. it's fluid (no punctuation at all), spelling doesn't matter, grammar is right-out ignored, and some words h4ve numb3rs 4 l3tt3rs. It's like a cross between 1337-speak and the mindless gibberish and stat-talk the gamers started with, because most of them think they're "teh 1337 h4><0r$" anyway.

Of course, we should also understand that a large percentage of these types of talkers are 14 year olds whose worldly knowledge isn't all that developed to begin with, and this type of fast-paced lazy-typing makes their already poorly-developed grammar and spelling skills worse through the repetitive rape of the language in such conditions.

I'm sure some of you have been around long enough to have had a few "Dungeons & Dragons" buddies who'd prattle on forever about stats and mystical shit you couldn't make sense of, let alone care about... well, this is that for video games and this time period.

Oh, and i'm not a hater, I love video games. I just don't spend 22.5 hours a day gaming like some people do.

You had me, right up until you said this :)

Never had problems understanding Aussies, but working and trying to understand a
coworker from Dagnam England was quite a test. He was a hoot though - and taught me lots of bad words!