Internet lingo makes no sense.

[AYY-BEE-CEE]

'Pwnz'? What the heck is that? Is it me or is some of this lingo making no sense?

Another word (or series of numbers) which makes no sense is '1337'. I learned from someone that this means 'elite', and he then started calling me a 'noob'.

I know what noob means of course (why not just spell newbie though?), but I can't really see the connection between 1337 and elite.

Why am I accused of being a newbie for not knowing a word which is so indecipherable? I'm sorry for being such an internet freak, who can't speak much else than English, but some of these phrases are so pathetic it makes you want to hit whoever coined the phrase over the head with a concrete rappy wing.

Oh and 'owned'. Come on, no one owns another individual on here, shut up for once you internet linguist braindead b******s. It's not a cattle market for god's sake.

[Micah]

internet lingo is mainly using numbers in place of letter to make it seem "cool". btw its n00b, not noob. which is shorter to spell than newbie.. usually an insult. other times the lingo is to supress bad words, such as you cant say "whore" in certain places. so some use the world "whor3" the 3 is for a backwards e.. lingo is just for people to act cool.. its not really associated with words such as lol, brb, ttyl, ect. but just ignore it if it bugs you. its not really that big of a deal.

on a note of forgetfulness, pwnz is short for ownage or owns. for example, like you just kicked a guys ass in battle mode, so you say, i owned you, or you got owned. while others just say, ownage or i pwnz you. ect. hopefully you get the point now.

on yet another edited note, the word 1337 and elite, turn the '1337' upside down it lookes like 'leet', as in e-leet.. get it?

another edited note, i need more sleep, i cant spell for crap today.

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[Ryo_Hayasa]

qoute time
http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif00d omg leik i pwnz j00, j00 suxx0r ahahaha lolz!!!111!! teh n00b"

in closing
"it's not your fault, some people are just that damn stupid"

hope that makes you feel better.
people use leet because it;'s "fun/cool"
just let them don't take that "your A n00b" crap.
they're idiots for talking in numbers. you can't talk in numbers. *sighs* just another teen fad that will blow over

[Micah]

actualy, haha, some guy that played tfc took normal windows font, and remade it into 1337 font.. as in you would type in e, but it would come up a 3, and o would be a p for pwnz ect. it was kinda cool, but got old quick, i think you can download it at customtfc.uk but its for tfc.. not pso

[Jehosaphaty]

On 2003-07-10 08:39, AYY-BEE-CEE wrote:

Come on, no one owns another individual on here, shut up for once you internet linguist braindead b******s.



hmm, ness i see wat u mean and concur. astericks=bad

[Micah]

dont complain about *****'s. thats lame, be thankful he had the respect to use those anyways. he could have said the word itself. or he could have used some internet lingo, haha. that has to be one of the funniest words.. lingo.. that and jebus.

[Micah]

and another thing i forgot. haha.. slow day for me. yes you can talk in numbers, its called binary.. its how your reading this right here too, your computer read it as letters you know so you can read it. interesting huh?

[umbrella]

ne roxorz yur boxorz O.0 http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[Bit]

....

w0rd.

[Logical2u]

On 2003-07-10 14:33, Micah wrote:
and another thing i forgot. haha.. slow day for me. yes you can talk in numbers, its called binary.. its how your reading this right here too, your computer read it as letters you know so you can read it. interesting huh?


1010100101110110101010101010101001010101

Translation: Your computer reads binary as ON and OFF, causing formations of codes, symbols and programs... I think.

[geewj]

On 2003-07-10 17:01, Logical2u wrote:


On 2003-07-10 14:33, Micah wrote:
and another thing i forgot. haha.. slow day for me. yes you can talk in numbers, its called binary.. its how your reading this right here too, your computer read it as letters you know so you can read it. interesting huh?


1010100101110110101010101010101001010101

Translation: Your computer reads binary as ON and OFF, causing formations of codes, symbols and programs... I think.



Err, im pretty sure that sentence would take a a page of binary.

[Reenee]

Put a 2 in there. =3

[umbrella]

On 2003-07-10 16:00, Bit wrote:
....

w0rd.


in fact, it's werd.

[Sai-Yuk]

01001001 00100000 01101000 01100001 01100100 00100000 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 00101100 00100000 01100010 01110101 01110100 00101100 00100000 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01100010 01101001 01110100 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01111001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100101 01111000 01100011 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 00101110

(or, in english.)

I had more to say, but, eight bits to the byte is excessive.

that proves a point, doesn't it.
that's in ASCII, with each byte spaced. without spaces, a four letter word would look like this...

01101110001100000011000001100010 (for example, is n00b)

when the 1337 speak in the 0's and 1's i will be impressed. few will be able to understand them then.

[Micah]

now that will be interesting

on a side note id rather just spell n00b than a bunch of 1's and 0's. or nub.. its shorter

[AYY-BEE-CEE]

On 2003-07-10 20:35, Micah wrote:
now that will be interesting

on a side note id rather just spell n00b than a bunch of 1's and 0's. or nub.. its shorter



Forget that you nb.