Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

[Elyssanda]

Holy cow! I'm sooo tired of whatever the heck it is that passes for chat abbreviations in the 13-18 year old group. I've had to flat out tell some people I don't understand what they're saying and I get laughed at.. Well.. Hello.. I speak English, Spanish, some French and even some Japanese, for goodness sake say something I can understand, especially when you're asking me a question. I got a 4-line message in my chat box yesterday from someone, and after about the 3rd word it went into some sort of code I swear. I'm not 13... I'm 33... I don't live in chatrooms learning all the lastest abbreviations and code. I have a RL with a hubby and 3 kids, then I have EQ.

I do tend to use (...) alot... mainly because I've not finished a thought, just need a space and pause.

If you want to say something to me I don't wanna have to break out my Howdie Doodie Decoder Ring to figure out what you're asking me!

[Lilosh]

Re: Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

Originally posted by Elyssanda
I don't live in chatrooms learning all the latest abbreviations and code. I have a RL with a hubby and 3 kids, then I have EQ.

Quoted for Extreme Irony. :-)
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Besides that, though, I totally agree.

I'm not a Dr00d, I don't want L3wt, and I sure as heck don't want an ubah Rangah!!!.

Speak English (Or German/French on Kael/Sebilis Servers) please.


-Lilosh

[Ursawraith]

Re: Re: Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

Speaking of Irony or a bad joke.

I find it interesting that the french server was named after a place filled with Frogloks.

[Speckocat Catnippurr]

I find that particularly funny because though I don't play on the European servers, I have a Froglok pally named Grenouille (frog). I do understand the irony to which you refer, Grimose, but it is extra funny for me because of my pally.

Elyssanda - I must agree. We're in roughly the same age group, well I've got a couple years on you since I'm 35, but I know EXACTLY what you mean.

I grouped with some good players last weekend with my beastlord but had to several times send group chat saying "huh?" because they had mystified me. I was an English major many moons ago and speak some Spanish, German, French, Hebrew, and Tagalog. I am not language impaired...but I can sure feel like I am sometimes.

I understand Lilosh point about irony as well, but the whole point of this particular scream is that there are some standard abbreviations everyone knows, and there is some measure of "today's hippest internet speak" which not all of us have the time or interest to be up on. Plus there is at least the occasional generational shorthand that even my younger late-20-something and earlier-30-something EQ friends don't understand either.

Don't know if it helps to know that you're not alone, Elyssanda, but it helped me to know that I wasn't. Thanks!

[Itzena]

Re: Re: Re: Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

Originally posted by Lord Grimrose
Speaking of Irony or a bad joke.

I find it interesting that the french server was named after a place filled with Frogloks.

And the British server was named after the undead remnant of a fallen empire.

(What? I'm British. I'm allowed to say it. )

[Draggar]

Re: Re: Re: Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

Originally posted by Lord Grimrose
Speaking of Irony or a bad joke.

I find it interesting that the french server was named after a place filled with Frogloks.

Hey, I resemble that remark!!!!

(But I do find it amusing)

[kiztent]

Re: Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

Originally posted by Elyssanda
If you want to say something to me I don't wanna have to break out my Howdie Doodie Decoder Ring to figure out what you're asking me!

OMG n00b! LOLZ.

Why yes stewardess, I speak d00d.

[Draggar]

Re: Re: Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

Originally posted by kiztent
OMG n00b! LOLZ.

Why yes stewardess, I speak d00d.

I loved that movie.

[sumamael]

wut r ur 1 n00b??11?! n0 lewts 4 u here!!ONE!!

Anyway, if you wanna show your intellectual superiority then use a l33t translator, most of the l33t speakers won't understand you but it will be their fault not yours

By the way I was trying to teach some manners for everyone who asked a rez from my cleric with any form of "plzzz, pls, plx" in their request by saying that "I will rez you if you take the effort of spelling out PLEASE and THANK YOU correctly"

Then I give it up after 80% of the cases I got the standard reply back of "thx rez"

[Angahran]

l33t sp33k

I used to refuse to buff anyone with my little shaman unless they could ask for it using real words.
Sometimes took them 2 or 3 attempts but they usually managed it.

Ang. a.k.a. Xaku, 30something Shaman

[Itek]

hehehe.... l33t ... rofl...

Supposedly the l33tsp34k is from those "elite hackers" who developed a shorthand to make typing easier AND to make it harder for people to understand them (a code)

ROFL.

Hackers are VERY precise and usually EXCELLENT typists. (speed-wise anyway) Thank god for spell check. There's not a need for a code that other people don't understand. It's the CODE that people don't understand already.

printBin(n){
n==0 {print 0,return}
n==1{print 1,return}
printBin(n/2);
print(n%2)}

I needed a "secret code" to make that unreadable to 99 percent of humanity? Innoruk's forehead!! My instructors tell me I need to make comments so _I_ can read it 6 months from now.

Text messaging on teeny-tiny phones will only make the problem worse. Much easier to excuse h1 and by3 when the "keyboard" is so much less functional. (I had expected phone manufacturers to put ALT and CTRL and SHIFT keys onto phones by now to make the 12 keypad a 15 keypad with 96 available keys.)

8 states from 3 state keys times 12 keys = 96 effective keys

48 upper case (+shift)
48 lower case (no shift)

12 number keys (no alt or ctrl)
36 "letter" keys (alt, ctrl, or alt + ctrl)

1 (a,b,c) __ ! (A,B,C)

1 (1+alt, 1+ctrl, 1+alt+ctrl) 1+shift (1+shift+alt, 1+shift+ctrl, 1+shift+alt+ctrl)

Gosh ... that's hard...

elite people don't use l33t ... they don't need to...

l33t5p34k is for wannabes...

[Cerpicio]

Re: Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

Originally posted by Elyssanda
I do tend to use (...) alot... mainly because I've not finished a thought, just need a space and pause.

Um, you actually type out your mental pauses?

Posting isn't a real-time event, you know. You could take all day typing out a message before you hit the Save button, and no one would ever know.

I bet you also nod your head and use hand gestures while talking on the phone, eh?



Just poking fun!
-- C.

[Rewde]

Re: Re: Dr000d, Druid, Lewt, Loot

Originally posted by Cerpicio
I bet you also nod your head and use hand gestures while talking on the phone, eh?

Hey!! I resemble that remark. Unfortunatly. My wife always seems to remind me that, while I am doing it.

[splunge]

I type like i talk and put elipses (...) in my messages as well. Deal with it. =)

Test server has a fairly large group in a guild thats from Sweden. They all speak (type) Very good English. A LOT better then a lot of Americans, i must say.

If i could figure out what country L33td00dz is in, i could tell those people to go back to their country of origin until they could speak(type) English properly.

[Itek]

I use them for inflection...

And to allow readers to catch up... (sometimes I type REALLY fast) ...

(seriously ... I usually in /gu will spam five or six lines of text ... and my chat window is nearly the full length of my screen)

And to allow for a "pause for thought" by the reader.

Whitespace... it is your friend. Anyone that's ever read a post and thought "when does this paragraph END ??" will understand.

Hmm... (pauses to compose a mental note to the mods on an unrelated topic)

**wanders away mumbling about fractals and people with Master's Degrees who don't understand the DEFINITION of a fractal implies SIMILAR -not- IDENTICAL**

(Tis a sad sad day when you realize you FORGOT more about programming than your instructor intends to teach. And a much more sad day when you realize in addition that you began programming with these techniques before the language the class is being taught in EXISTED. And a purely HATEFUL day when you realize that you wrote a program that's currently making money before the person grading your homework took a HIGH SCHOOL class.)

**Itek wanders by going the other way mumbling about finding his old "core wars" programming buddies and asking about this "viral coding" idea**

**Itek wanders by again... reading the Dragon Book**

(NOTE: To non-geeks and people that haven't seen the movie "Hackers" ... "the Dragon Book" is the 'bible' for compiler design. If you don't know what compiler design is... just remember the scene in "Men In Black" where Jay says "Quantum Mechanics... now those books are WAY too advanced for her. Little Suzy is about to start some STUFF!" Then run away contemplating the words of one of my instructors.

Itek: Yeah, I'd like to learn a bit more about hardware. But my real interests lie in cryptology, compiler design, language design, networking and telephony. I just wish I had time in my degree program to take a few of the telephony classes. That might be useful information.

Richard: Itek, I'm going to write down your Social number and keep it in a safe place.

Classmate: Why would you write down his Social?

Richard: So when the FBI comes looking for him I have something to give them.)