Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT February 9-13
the_pied_piper:
--- Quote from: Headwoünd on 11 Feb 2009, 05:12 ---Seriously, why did nobody sp33k some decent l33t here yet? They can't because they actually speak, but last time I checked we are writing down stuff here.
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My curiosity getting the better of me i used wikipedia to check this out then read the article. WTF people?! I mean, nobody uses it here, thank god, but why in the hell would you use that?
sieckanddestroy:
Because it was once 2004 and we were once not (slightly) mature adults.
raoullefere:
And because some people get off on communicating with a select group in such a way as those outside that group haven't a clue as to what they're saying, although sometimes with unintentional results. I took a look at (don't ask why) a site comparing Beyonce to Rihanna* the other day, and it was rather shocking. I only grokked about a third of it. The problem is, if I didn't know better, I'd say the reason for my incomprehension was that everyone posting was mildly retarded and had been locked in an institution together for many, many years. At least Leet looks as though the computer's screwed the text some way (Headwoünd's text looks shockingly similar to some of the mishmash generated when I try to open a MSworks file in Nisus), rather than the poster.
*So I dig "Disturbia". So sue me.
Selunei:
Slightly off-topic, but related to other WCT posts:
Marten's turn to clean up the blood. Literally. (http://twitter.com/martenreed/status/1200166179)
Now the question remains: even though they *are* written by Jeph, are the character Twitters canon?
the_pied_piper:
It just worries me a little with the state of adult literacy in the UK and USA currently. Its higher in some of the supposedly 'undeveloped' countries of the world.
Also, i teach part time at a secondary school and partly thanks to text language and this leetspeak (or bullshit as i prefer to call it) a lot of the kids can't even spell properly. I know its not the be all and end all but it kinda worries me for the future of these people.
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