I hate to say it, but no. I have, and I hate to admit it, actually been the the presence of kids who said LOL rather than laughing. I was hoping it would be an isolated incident but with this book out.... I"m very, very afraid for my sanity.

 

Wow...I mean, WOW! This is a joke right?? Somebody printed this as a joke. They can't really be serious.

Lord Ravenclaw, I usually hold a small light for the fate of humanity within me.

You have just killed that light.

 

I often use the word "Toodles."

 

I've never heard of TTFN being anything other than Ta-Ta For Now . . .

Buying this book and burning acomplishes nothing, as the author still gets paid for the book you bought. I honestly think this is a get-rich-quick scheme, because absolutely no professional author or seriously hopeful professional-to-be would ever sink to this level.

And should I mention that once, just once, I said "rofl" while laughing at a joke? I'd been in an IM group-chat for over thirteen hours discussing a project with my management team and a friend had dropped over with beer. *retreats into corner*

 

I honestly hope not.

Looking at this from a 15 year olds perspective, kids my age don't really read at all now (before anyone jumps in and says I READ 12 BOOKS A DAY, most teenagers don't), and they would still think this is stupid. I read books assigned for classes, and sometimes others if I have a lot of spare time, I probably don't read more then 10 real books a year (disregarding Fanfiction)

Teenagers are happy to type like retards over the internet, it rarely is used in regular conversation, and when someone does use it gets laughed at people move on, I'm sure it slips out more then people consciously say, I'm going to say LOL at school today and Betty will like me or whatever context you want to use it in. But when someone comes in and *tries* to use netspeak, and tries to relate it fails, there are a few odd successes, MTV for one, but they usually fail.

People don't use netspeak because it's cool, merely it's because it's faster, saying u and y? is not actually some clever scheme to fool parents.

*looks at his post and how much veered off topic*

 

Why would it be faster? I can type just as quickly without using fumbduck as replacement for proper letters/words. I type faster than my brother, who uses netspeak. Sure, there are a few typos that I occasionally miss, but that's just being human. Writing in netspeak is a mutilation of the English language. I mean, what kind of person uses netspeak in normal conversation? Its pathetic and is butchering our glorious language even further. Disgraceful.

Aekiel

 

I read a book where the main character narated her own story, and there was incorrect grammar and misspellings, and that sort of thing--mostly, though, because it's how people think. And, you know, people probably think in netspeak, too. You know, people for whom complex thoughts are painful and arduous.

This sort of crap deserves to STAY in this sick, twisted person's head. Ugh. I feel dumber from even considering the idea.

 

I hope that at least non native speakers won't read it or even write like that.

It is a pain in the ass to read net speak when I constantly have to translate it first into proper English and then into German.

It also makes my reading technique useless. I don't read every single word as if I would read it to somebody, I just fly over the text and get the important information, so for reading, net speak will not make you faster.

There is no reason at all for a published book to use acronyms for faster writing (as that is the reason net speak was invented I think) ... It only slows down -at least my- reading.

 

Netspeak/leetspeak isn't traditionally a spoken form of communication at all though. It's a written, or more specifically typed one. Contrasting wtih my earlier comparison to 'ebonics,' which is a spoken form of communication and much less often a written one. I cannot imagine it will ever become spoken prevalently anymore than ebonics is written in prevalently.

It's simply a very primitive typed dialect that a smaller uneducated group prefers to use in an effort to separate themselves from others. People use it primarily because they are actually too lazy to type the extra letters. Texting on a cell phone, it is much quicker to write "y r u gay?" than "Why are you gay?" The spillover effect from chats and places where it may serve a purpose is the slippery slope here.

Take this forum for example. These "primitives" will post an introduction substituting the letter "u" for the word "you" and elect not to use any capitalization or punctuation. This is basically their way of saying, "I'm a baboon. Look at my big pink ass. Are there any other baboons here?"

Typically, most people will immediately respond by beating their chests proudly yelling, "No baboons allowed! Speak like man! Not baboon!"

If anyone responds in their primitive dialect, they see they have found another baboon with a big pink ass. Then they have found a kindred spirit, and the two baboons will proceed to pick the bugs from each other's big pink asses to form a very rudimentary connection.

Now these books ttyl, ttfn, and l8r, g8r that have upset so many of you, are basically taking a whole bunch of baboon assbugs, and presented them at the dining room table with a complete service set. These baboons are then trained all about their salad fork, dinner fork, and dessert fork because they were drawn in by the appeal of baboon assbugs.

I personally find it a good thing that at least the baboons are eating at the table rather than from their kindred spirits' asses. But you seem most concerned that their baboon assbugs are going to get into your dinner.

They won't become mainstream. They won't become indistinguishable from what you prefer to eat. Inevitably, a few assbugs will work their way into general acceptability, but for the most part baboons with large pink asses will remain a closed society.

But considering the future leaders of the world are among those pink-assed baboons, if they need training wheels to learn how to eat at the dinner table, that's fine by me. No one will respect them until they take their training wheels off.

And forums like this will continue to exist where we don't let no stinking pink-assed baboons peddle their assbugs.

 

Well said.


I almost started crying when I read the reviews... Except for Brian Bannon's review they all basically went along the lines of "OMG! JOO HAVE TO READ THIS! LIKEZ ITS BEST EVAR!"

Leetspeak/Netspeak/whatever should never have been invented.

 

I dunno, it's kinda funny to use 1337-5P34K when your fucking around with a friend who plays WoW or something. Or making fun of Fan Girls.

 

Neh, most WoW players wouldn't be caught dead using chatspeak. I'm a WoW player and I can't stand it when someone comes up to me and says, "omg k4n j00 t3ll m3 wh3r3 teh acutoin house is?!!1?1?11?". More often than not, it's some stupid newbie who doesn't know how to ask a guard where something is.

 

I am thinking of "the tight teen girl paperback market". Doesn't every one want to be Meg Calbot, while the are submiting to the babysitters clubs or sweet valley high. The writer found an angle, a fad to cash in on, and it is good enough to allow for a second and third book. While I agree with many of the thoughts expressed in this thread, It is just a passing fad Right,?????

 

Could be a passing Fad, could be only the first in a series of passing fads that will spell the end.

And the newbs who ask for gold or runs through level 15 instances are much worse, because they're usually quite persistent, lol.

 

That is what the ignore option is for.

 

Wow.... when I saw this it reminded me of a movie I saw once called Idiocracy. (terrible movie DON'T SEE IT) The movie was about how this guy freezes himself and goes into the future and finds the future so incredibly dumb that everyone is dieing from starvation because they didn't think that putting water on crops helps it grow.

Anyway, immedeatly after reading this it made me think how that if that movie came true, this would be one of the biggest reasons why.

 

It's pretty stupid, but it doesn't bother me as much as it does everybody else. As long as I don't have to read it, I don't care. All it does is show how stupid (just how stupid did surprise me, though) people really are... but I thought we had established that fact already.

The world is filled with dumb people, but with out them you wouldn't be able to pick the smart ones out.

 

Uh, nonjon? I just wanted to point out that that was possibly the most visually disturbing extended metaphor ever. I now have to go scrub my brain to stop associating l337sp34k with assbugs.

Good work.