If I'm ever going to start a career as a serial hacker, I'd probably be targetting people who constantly use these kind of abominable phonetic abbreviations. Major pet peeve of mine. And yes, I *do* care. I honestly have problems with people using "ppl" instead of people, "NE1" or whatever instead of anyone, "u" instead of you, "r" instead of are, (or even worse) "ur(e)" instead of you're or even your (I've seen both), "t(h)ru" instead of through, end words with an "s" at the end with a "z" instead, "n00" instead of new...
Especially when they use it in serious mesageboard discussions and actually *do* know how to spell it, but prefer the phonetic abbreviation instead, for whatever reason.
Just a snippet from another board I visit every once and awhile:
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NEbody ever listen to this guy. Bak in 99 i bought his CD "Tally Ho!" personally i think he does some kikin techno. Course bak then "Tally Ho!" waZ about the only thing he had out. I jes checked Kazaa lite an found a few noo good thingZ of hiZ.
So NEbody listen an like?
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and from the same guy...
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Hey Plas u referrin to that thingy where the Record industry has raped our freedoms an they can now rummage thru verison logs to see who's been gettin stuff off file sharing progs then crack down on innocent indivduals?
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Saddest thing? That guy who typed that was in his thirties.
Seriously, to anyone typing like that: it's
not cool. You don't earn anyone's respect by constantly raping the English language, all you do is get people annoyed. I'm trying not to judge people by the way they type, but typing like that doesn't really help getting a positive image of someone, to be honest.
[ 03-10-2003, 07:00 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]