The new language!

[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:

[MattyG]

Well I think "j00" is like an abstraction of "you". I see it sometimes in online computer games.

Example: "We Ownzed j00" = "We owned you" = "We appear to have beaten you rather convincingly" (or something).

Im not sure about w3rd. I think its like "word" only different.....

[taranaki]

It's a seperate sub-language for geeks under 20 with no english skills.

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by taranaki
It's a seperate sub-language for geeks under 20 with no english skills.

I did wonder! :hehehe:

[Deakins]

w3rd = weird ?

[Spec2 Girl]

OK well what I don't get then is why not spell the whole word.

Why put w3rd when you could just as easily put weird.

Why put "I own j00z", when you could put "I own you"?

I don't get it. Must be getting too old!

[joos]

Seriously. why do they keep saying "We own joos".

They don't own me damnit

[wickedG20]

its the choice words of the elite, and no taranaki, this is common pc slang. Hey spec, lol = laughing out loud, it takes maybe 1 more second to write out the whole word for me, oic = oh I see, takes me .5 seconds to write the whole thing out. Why don't you just write out the whole word?

and w3rd doesn't stand for weird, it stands for word. basically you say word when you feel the same about something somone just mentioned.

You might find this helpful... http://www.rainemu.com/nemesis1/w3rd.html

haha, the "kiwi-ers" need to get a little more down to earth

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by joos
Seriously. why do they keep saying "We own joos".

They don't own me damnit

Rotflmao! :hehehe:

its the choice words of the elite, and no taranaki, this is common pc slang. Hey spec, lol = laughing out loud, it takes maybe 1 more second to write out the whole word for me, oic = oh I see, takes me .5 seconds to write the whole thing out. Why don't you just write out the whole word?

lol is a bit different. It's three words condensed down into 3 letters. I can understand that, but "joos" is actually longer to type than "you"! That's what I don't get. It just sounds stupid.

[darkness]

I know what they meant. I just don't use them because I don't consider myself an l33t hax0r.

[Spec2 Girl]

Originally posted by darkness
I know what they meant. I just don't use them because I don't consider myself an l33t hax0r.

Same. I knew what they meant (well at least the joos part anyway! ).

[YogsVR4]

It affords the opportunity to use this classic.

[taranaki]

Originally posted by wickedG20
its the choice words of the elite, and no taranaki, this is common pc slang.

haha, the "kiwi-ers" need to get a little more down to earth

the elite?bahahahahaha...the illiterate,more like...real English owns you!

[ci5ic]

"Tales for the L33T: Romeo And Juliet" funny stuff...

www.frashii.com/romjul.swf

And, my personal take on "Joo" is not that it is short for "you", but that it sounds like someone with a Puerto Rican accent saying "you", but that still doesn't explain why everyone uses it...

And, as far as w3rd goes, I think the 3 is supposed to resemble a backwards "E", so that it would look like "WERD", which is just a bastardization of "WORD"...

[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

(sigh)

And some of these folk are graduates... how does that happen?

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