Les!!! Neopets Poll for you...

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Mikki~ wrote:
> This is a one I haven't seen before from the front page:
>
> How do you feel about chatspeak? (Poll No. 367)
>
> Here are the results so far (out of a total 64770 votes) :
>
> l33t : 13,700 (21.15%)
> It hurts my eyes : 25,805 (39.84%)
> Dont chat : 25,223 (38.94%)
>
>
> We are not alone!!!
>
>
what does the first one mean,actually?

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Mikki~ [mikki721@charter.net] said
> This is a one I haven't seen before from the front page:
>
> How do you feel about chatspeak? (Poll No. 367)
>
> Here are the results so far (out of a total 64770 votes) :
>
> l33t : 13,700 (21.15%)
> It hurts my eyes : 25,805 (39.84%)
> Dont chat : 25,223 (38.94%)
>
>
> We are not alone!!!
>
>
>

133t? Seriously, what does that mean?

But I shall look out for that one and vote at every opportunity. :-)))

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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Les wrote:
> bodcat1 [bodcat1@yourunderpantsshaw.ca] said
> > Dunno.. it looks like Elite... Leet...
> > OH man, who knows!
>
> LOL! I'm glad it's not just me then. :-)
>
> Goes and does a google....
>
> "Leet (meaning 'elite', most commonly represented as 1337) is an online
> culture or attitude sometimes identified by frequent use of leetspeak (a
> spelling convention for typed words)."
> And apparently it is pronounced 'leet'
>
> But to me the explanation makes as much sense as the language...

It's just idiotspeak. It's safe to ignore it and to automatically halve
your estimate of the IQ of anyone who uses it.

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