The new language!

[taranaki]

Originally posted by replicant_008


Or am I just stuck in the 20th Century in expecting that correspondence is professional in terms of grammar and spelling.

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[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by taranaki
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The one with the Japanese symbols??

[replicant_008]

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As the Spanish would say 'Ki?'

[darkness]

Originally posted by replicant_008


As the Spanish would say 'Ki?'

what the hell does Ki mean in spanish?

[Jay!]

Originally posted by darkness
what the hell does Ki mean in spanish?

Spanish doesn't even use the letter "k," except in order to spell words from English and other languages...

[darkness]

I think he might have meant "Que" which means "what"

[taranaki]

translation........

Replicant is starting to sound just like Moondog..

[replicant_008]

Sorry I was being phonetic... I speak a little Spanish but have no idea about the written language (a bit like my Cantonese /Mandarin /Japanese). Conversely, I'm really good at understanding written French but useless at conversational French.

The somewhat patchy Spanish comes from having lots of South American friends including some Brazilians (who confusingly speak Portugese), Chileans and Argentineans and travelling on my own in Spain this year. (Try backpacking across Spain with no phrase books and using South America Spanish...)

So therefore, the Question should have been "Que?"

[Jay!]

I always sorta figured the substitution of numbers and symbols for letters was to thwart search engines...

[boingo82]

Originally posted by replicant_008
And whatever happened to sentence construction, grammar, spelling etc...?

I keep getting staff who seem to think that the shorthand they use on their SMS TXT is acceptable in a business document. I feel like a school teacher reviewing letters meant to be sent to clients containing:

- Grammatical errors
- Spelling that has been checked with Word rather than read
- Illogical sequencing of explanations
- Sentences that simply fail to make sense
- It's/Its, affect/effect, stationery/stationary, whose/who's incorrectly used....

You forgot they're/their/there.

And I know all about these people. Many of them work as writers at our newspaper. Several more work for other newspapers, and are constantly screwing up Associated Press stories.

Why say Jo0 and w3rd? Because it's k3wL.

[ci5ic]

Originally posted by jay@af
I always sorta figured the substitution of numbers and symbols for letters was to thwart search engines...

I agree... I think people will write Sh1T instead of Shit because they think their post will be deleted for using profanity... Keeps it off the radar or something...

[taranaki]

Originally posted by ci5ic



I agree... I think people will write Sh1T instead of Shit because they think their post will be deleted for using profanity... Keeps it off the radar or something...

Some of the settings on net nanny type programmes can be harsh....my mother works as a school librarian...she was using a school P.C. to IM her sister in N.Z.,and asked about the weather...when the reply came back...'it's pissing down',the PC automatically locked up,and she had to call one of the IT lecturers to release it!

That also explains why pictures of naked women doing the splits are often referred to as 'pr0n'...but I suspect the program writers are onto it by now.

[Jay!]

Originally posted by taranaki
That also explains why pictures of naked women doing the splits are often referred to as 'pr0n'...but I suspect the program writers are onto it by now.

Which is why the language of the l33t h4x0r is always evolving...

[gang$tarr]

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
OK can someone please explain to me what the hell is going in with all the “j00s” and “w3rd” that I am seeing everywhere. What’s with that??? :finger: :silly2:

its the new language of the nerds derived from the latin form of computer geekus

j/k

[J SPEC SilEighty]

Here's a good example of these slang words at use in this thread title. some of you may have seen this who visit the other OT.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t64301.html