Today's word of the day is 'n00blets' ... if you haven't ever heard of 13375p34k, then you are missing out on some hilarious mutilation of English. I always got immense amusement out of l33t and general slang from teh interwebs, but reading the Wikipedia article (linked above) on it today introduced me to the awesome word 'n00blets,' which made me giggle for at least 20 minutes. When I hear n00blets I think of little whiney Hero Wars players in a bowl of milk... and I am the spoon. My goal is to use that word at least once a day from now on.
I particularly enjoyed the following passages:
Leet, like other hacker slang, enjoys a looser grammar than standard English. The loose grammar, just like loose spelling, encodes some level of emphasis, ironic or otherwise. A reader must rely more on intuitive parsing of Leet to determine the meaning of a sentence rather than the actual sentence structure. In particular, speakers of Leet are fond of verbing nouns, turning verbs into nouns (and back again) as forms of emphasis (e.g. "Bob rocks" is weaker than "Bob r0xx0rz" (note spelling) is weaker than "Bob is t3h r0xx0rz" (note grammar)). Leet, like in other hacker slang, employs overgeneralization in construction of new words. For example, if haxored is the past tense of the verb "to hack" (hack → haxor → haxored), then blowzored would be easily understood to be the past tense conjugation of "to blow," even if the reader had not seen that particular word before.
... and ...
In some cases, because the exclamation symbol (!) resides on the same key as the number one ("1") on English keyboards, over-exclamation can be accidentally (or purposely) typed with extraneous numerical digits, owing to the excitement of the typist: "This is really exciting!!!!!11". This was especially likely in the context of fast-paced online multiplayer games, where typing carefully leaves the gamer vulnerable to attack. Some deliberately type the numbers, while others take the exclamation further and sarcastically replace some of the digits with words: "This is really exciting!!!!!!11eleven1111one", or perhaps even "This is really exciting!!!!!!111onetwo".
... and this one reminded me of Hamid/DJ/Bob/lame players of Final everywhere ...
In addition to variations on punctuation-based emphasis, it is common to combine two (or more) words and capitalize them to show emphasis. Perhaps most common would be the combination of OMG and WTF to produce OMGWTF. For irony, some will then add BBQHAX to the end (BBQ refering to the word barbeque). This ending generally has the same meaning as the saying "..with gravy," commonly added to the end of sentences. This creates OMGWTFBBQHAX.
Tomorrow is my last day of work and Saturday morning I board a plane for the land of Georgia. Once there, my parents and I are headed for Destin, Florida for a few days, and then back to their place to pack up and drive everything back up to Gardner. I should be back in Lawrence by the 28th or so. Then I will have a fun filled week of getting all my work requests done for the next release, followed by a trip down to Texas to see Kathy for a week or so. So much to do!
Ademas, he escribido esa parte para Bob, para que el pueda leer un poquito español y ponerse enfadado. Gooback!
Hasta Luego.
4 comments:
sure leave out yur roomate, ya pansy!
pardoname--no habla espanol. por favor un minuto espanol para madres que no habla. ?comprehende? (don't know the upside down question mark shortcut). Good for you on the Spanish connection. Will you and Kath be in the same classes?
Mum
Para una persona que no habla espanol, tu hablas bastante. We will probably see each other on breaks and such, but won't be in the same actual classrooms.
te quiero mi novio guapo!
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