Anyone else find it annoying when people use AOLamer speak when they are typing an email or forum post?

I personally can't stand it when people do that. Its understandable to do that in a real time chat situation like in a game or in a chat room because of speed but, IMO, doing it in a forum post / email is annoying because you have all the time in the world to type out you post / email.

I'll admit, using it to shorten phases I don't have a problem with (such as asap, btw, imo, etc.) but going as far as typing "ok man u dont no me and i dont no u" in a email / post is REALLY annoying.

Anyone else feels this way or am I just being a bit too demanding about this?

Edit: Changed "leet" to "AOLamer" for clarification

I do. The only person I tolerate it from is my g/f because she emails me from work and has to make it quick.

omg dude wahts rong wit u ur so dum who cares if ppl post lik this omg

I HATE those people.

**** yes, leet speak is annoying as hell.

Although hell's not all that annoying, it's just cool... :em321:

Your non-fancy blog was disappointing. F-

Thats not leet speak, its idiot speak.

It's annoying. I'm not going to take someone very seriously of they use leet speak.

I've taken to saying "OMG" out loud in real life. I compensate by saying "Oh Em Gee" online.

-Unless it's a sudden rush of leet in good humor, IE: OMG IS TAHT JK OMG LOL!!!!!1!11!1111!!

I say Oh Em Gee, and Bee Are Bee in real life. Alot of my friends do it too (alot don't even chat or use a computer).

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Leet speak h45 nu|\/|b3r5 and such. And for me, it's not faster to type that way.

Although, I can't believe how thrown off people are when I write notes at school in leet and they fall into wrong hands.

It's hilarious to watch them try to sound things out.

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I agree, Sav... But your definition of leet speak is off. That's AOLamer.

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You confused me for a second there by calling it leet speak, but I agree with what you're saying. People who use u, ur, etc. get so much less respect from me.

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Uh...

Welcome to five years ago? :p

Leet sucks, AOLamer sucks, and generic "i cant spel werth a dam" sucks. I don't care if it's a MB post, IM, or in-game. LEARN TO ****ING TYPE PROPERLY! It's not about typing faster (acronyms aside, they're fine), it's about showing how pathetic your life is that you have to use numbers to type so only other losers can read it.

lol k

The only time I'll ever consider typing shorthand like that is when I'm gaming. In an online game I don't have time to time every single letter most of the time (though I still end up doing it and dying).

Ok, I stand corrected. I was unsure of what to call it when I was writing my post so I just used "leet".

They're all subdialects of a global saxon-based language known as "moron."

Amen

[QUOTE=Compos Mentis]Your non-fancy blog was disappointing. F-[/QUOTE]

I'd like to see you do better.

The intersting thing with that is that its quite readable. i read all of that in a minute or two

[QUOTE=Noble Outlaw]The intersting thing with that is that its quite readable. i read all of that in a minute or two[/QUOTE]
Taking up to two minutes to read a couple of sentences would hardly qualify it as quite readable in my book

Freelancer, I really hope that you didn't waste twenty minutes of your life typing all that out. That's incredibly unreadable (last 2 posts, first one was okay).

Compared to most 'haxor's speak it's readable. Heck, compared to most AOL speak that's readable.... well, ok, tis not that bad, but still

[edit] And see! Ric agrees, so i must be right >.>

[edit edit] And i jsut scanned his otehr posts and i stick by my point; the first is decently readable. all i have to say for the otehr two is O_o

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slightly fancy :), but not hand coded like I'm assuming yours is. Just made the theme from kubrik and did alot of the hacks/plugins I'm using. Is yours php or static html? I forgot...*click*

But honestly, it's about what I came up with when I was your age (only been doing webpages for about a year at that point). It's not bad, but your name has fancy in it so I was expecting fancy. FANCY

Come on Noble Outlaw! You know you wanna decipher the other two! In fact, in the third one, I tell you what I'll give you if you decipher it. I have names for the various leet dialects I use. The first I've dubbed 'simple leet', the second 'heavy leet', and the third 'weird leet.'

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Sarn's post is what I consider proper leet; some letters are replaced with symbols or numbers, and no letter gets replaced with more than 1 character. Modified common words (pr0n, t3h, junk like that) made their way into the vernacular over time and are basically acceptable, although kinda lame. Their post was readable at full speed, as opposed to that garbage Freelancer posted elsewhere in the thread.

I prefer numeric leet (where only a handful of letters are replaced with symbols, so that typing it is nearly as fast as normal typing because you don't need shift at all, like in Freelancer's second to newest post) personally.

That being said, internet shorthand (apparently also known as AOLamer?) is really obnoxious and is only barely appropriate in multiplayer FPS's where time is critical. In most games (especially MMOGs) communicating is tightly integrated with the game and so it's not that hard to get everything typed out properly within any given time window. Using shorthand with Instant Messenging, let alone e-mails or message board posts, is ridiculous.

Uhh... so I voted "Yeah, its annoying!"

QM

P.S. - 4 8 c 6 3 f 9 h i j k L m n 0 p q r 5 7 u v w x y 2
Anyone follow a different ruleset?

maybe. I think I heard that somewhere... but maybe I just made it up. Either way, it's appropriate.

Anyone know ununggung?

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No.

didn't.. but it's pretty obvious. Just remove the ung

"sarn's post is what i onsider proper leet; some letters are replaced with symbols or numbers, and no letter gets replaced with more than 1 character. modified common words (pr0n, t3h, junk like that) made their way into the vernacular over time and are basically acceptable, although kinda lame. their post was readable at full speed, as opposed to that garbage freelancer posted elsewhere in the thread."
(you missed a c)

Yeah, I hate AOLamer speak too. Not as much as I hate leet though, because at least AOLamers can be read just as quickly as normal text (most of the time)

I can read l34t just as quickly... (and type it just as quickly, too). As long as it's of the type that I normally write.