Mood: Geek
Grammar: Use it!
Disclaimer: The following stories are sorta based on not-true stories. Names haven't been changed. Screw the innocent.
The scenario should be familiar. Your chatting in your favorite IRC channel, when all of a sudden, cooldudeman432 pops in. Quoth cooldudeman432, “Lolz roffle wat r u dooing? Im the l337 haxx0r! I hax ur comp! I put virus on ur comp!” Seem familiar? It does to me.
Some people may not know it, but an epidemic is spreading on the Internet It's called “grammaritis.” It's characterized by a peculiar lack of grammatical correctness, and lack of coherence. There is now only one known cure for this disease: a swift kick in the balls and a sound beating with a hardback copy of Don Quixote.
Seriously though. These people, who think they are “l337”, who think they are “haxx0rs”, are a pain. If the English language were Julius Caesar, these retards would be Brutus. The source of this problem is laziness. These people are too lazy too type out the whole word. This has to stop.
My real solution: Include an automatic spell-checker in IRC clients, web-browsers, and anything involved with typing and posting on the Internet This would fix almost everyone's problems. Of course, I still like the idea of beating these retards up.
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Monday, October 10, 2005
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2 comments:
Ha ha. Too true. However, the spell-checker I'm talking about is a non-voluntary thing. It is set to "Auto-replace" all the time, without any option of changing it. And if you really want your post to be in chatspeak, just go back and edit it ex post facto.
Somehow, I don't believe its about laziness anymore.
Auto-replace could be funny:
"LOL" turns into "laughing out loud but can't spell it"
"l337" turns into "chronically stupid"
"haxx0r" turns into "wanker"
(QC reader)
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