I don't understand internet slang

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18 Mar 2007, 6:43 pm

It confuses me.

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18 Mar 2007, 6:49 pm

lol: laughing out loud

rol: rolling over laughing

wtf: What the f**k

brb: be right back

ftw: for the win

I'll tell you so more when I remember them.

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18 Mar 2007, 7:08 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang
Gotta love Wikipedia.

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18 Mar 2007, 7:57 pm

Wikipedia FTW

Does it bother any of you when people use stuff such as "c u l8r"? "txt tlk"..

I don't mind stuff like "lol", "btw", "brb", and such, but that other text talk drives me insane ><

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18 Mar 2007, 8:23 pm

I hate it when people go: "hi how r u'" or "i am teh 1337 hal0 haxx0x."

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18 Mar 2007, 8:25 pm

wtf, ROFL, lol, LMAO, own,and brb are perfectly fine to me, but the other ones are lame.

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18 Mar 2007, 9:05 pm

i think the talk like "1 r 1337" is ret*d. i compare it to lil white kids using "black slang". but i do like shortened words like "u" "b4" "c" "o" and "l8er" (the last 1 is pushing it...)

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18 Mar 2007, 11:29 pm

yeah, it's confusing for me too...but I guess if you know the basics, you start to get used to them...

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19 Mar 2007, 12:13 am

Didn't what they were until recently, so confusing when people talk like that

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19 Mar 2007, 3:35 am

Yeah, me too:

ROFLMAO: rolling on the floor, laughing my a** off.

AFAIK: As far as I know

IMHO: in my humble opinion

but there's a few I still don't know like

BBQ

A lot of the number letter gibberish is from the online gaming, where you want to send messages quickly. Probably important to the text-messenger folk too.

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19 Mar 2007, 3:40 am

calandale wrote:

but there's a few I still don't know like

BBQ

Barbecue?

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19 Mar 2007, 3:44 am

It drives me insane...
It's like the ultimate in bad grammar.
I don't mind "lol" or "brb" or "cya" or anything like that... Except when lol is used more than once in the same sentence or more than three times in the same paragraph.
But what I REALLY can't stand is people replacing letters or syllables with numbers... Replacing A with 4 or E with 3. Or in the case of syllables, "Great" spelled "Gr8".

I will tolerate it to save arguments but it really does get on my nerves...

BBQ means Barbeque by the way, Calandale.

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19 Mar 2007, 5:51 am

Is that all? I'm not sure. But it may be a site-specific slang I'm looking at. Do people tend to add BBQ to other acronyms just for kicks?

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19 Mar 2007, 6:09 am

calandale wrote:

Is that all? I'm not sure. But it may be a site-specific slang I'm looking at. Do people tend to add BBQ to other acronyms just for kicks?

Not that I've ever seen.

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19 Mar 2007, 8:20 am

RedMage wrote:

I hate it when people go: "hi how r u'" or "i am teh 1337 hal0 haxx0x."

What about

"How are you?", typed normally? <_<

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19 Mar 2007, 8:48 am

Anubis wrote:

RedMage wrote:

I hate it when people go: "hi how r u'" or "i am teh 1337 hal0 haxx0x."

What about

"How are you?", typed normally? <_<

Most of the time I don't even fell like answering people and then I think to myself when are they going to stop sending me messages. I killed the program a couple of times so that it would stop

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