03-03-2005 23:06									#31
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Nick Burns started doing that years ago.

	03-03-2005 23:14									#32
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quote: And smilies one day will enter spoken language colon dash close bracket.

I just tilt my head 90 degrees, and smile like a retard.

	03-03-2005 23:18									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor However, the French internet culture promotes horrendous grammar, and it is very likely that horrendous grammar becomes the norm by the time I grow old

Theres hope for my atrocious French yet, then.

	04-03-2005 03:38									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Asher Nick Burns started doing that years ago.

Who? Any relation to Monty?

	04-03-2005 03:55									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Geronimo how could you use the unpronouncable 'pwned' in a normal conversation? (unless you pronounced it incorrectly )

I pronounce it "poned", sounds like cone with an -ed at the end.

By the way, does anyone know what the Z in ZOMFG!! means?

	04-03-2005 04:08									#36
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*sigh*

back in my day we used words like sucks or cool.

we used proper English.

	04-03-2005 04:24									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Wycoff I pronounce it "poned", sounds like cone with an -ed at the end. By the way, does anyone know what the Z in ZOMFG!! means?

It is another typo like pwnd (p instead of o)

In an attempt to reach for the shift key and type OMFG, somebody missed and hit the z key resulting in zomfg

You guys crack me up, trying to say that "you" know how to pronoun a word that is a typo and is not in any dictionary anywhere.

zomfg PWNd

	04-03-2005 04:46									#38
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident *sigh* back in my day we used words like sucks or cool. we used proper English.

That is like sooo kewl?

	04-03-2005 04:49									#39
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I know some people who say LOL, and I do it occasionally.

	04-03-2005 05:17									#40
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I wish I could bludgeon every last one of those (or you) idiots that uses leetspeak with a large blunt object.

The God Forbid answer was good, but I don't think it takes it far enough. My answer is "**** I hope not!!!"

EDIT - OH NOES!!! is allowed to stay, for whatever reason I think that that particular saying is really funny.

	04-03-2005 06:18									#41
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I dunno... internet speak seems specifically tailored to the written (typed) word. So you might start seeing it in literature...

However, watching Melvyn Bragg's series "the story of english", I've learnt that english pretty much absorbs everything it touches...

Australian lingo, unsurprisingly, is a direct descendant of the language used in London's criminal subculture back in the 18th and 19th centuries.

	04-03-2005 06:24									#42
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Who? Any relation to Monty?

Google sez: US Ambassador to NATO.

	04-03-2005 06:24									#43
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quote: I dunno... internet speak seems specifically tailored to the written (typed) word. So you might start seeing it in literature...

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