Dec 28
Just had to share this with you guys. An email I got from an Instance listener. Do people really continue to talk this way?
one of teh reasons I enjoy listening to your show so much is to hear teh legendary noobness of yours tjhat is teh roxxor. however, i wish you both were epiced out into wotlk already and would talk about teh end game content like Malygos 25 man raids, not teh gimp. While teh gimp is sometimes funny, teh pwnzor, teh plox! Maybe you could have teh 1337 segment of the show where someone talks about teh guuds…anyways, your show is teh whack still and burnz my sox, so yar horde ftw yo
hehe…he done talked funny.
That had to be a joke. I don’t think he was serious
sorry for double post. but think about it, he uses all of these ridiculous internet terms and then uses “however”. It doesn’t fit
Gosh!
Altaru: You might be right. There was nothing I could see however that made me think he was goofing on us other than what you said. Secretly hoping you’re right.
American………. i joke, i joke
I have no idea what he said!
He was joking. I tried to type like that once, but my fingers began to burn and I had to stop.
okaay so i dont feel that *old* when i didnt understand the most of the letter…. i was about to panic: “I cant understand l337 anymore! Im old!!”
Thee worstt iss whenn peoplee typee likee thiss. Itt makess mee sadd forr humann kindd.
I have no idea what he said. But then I never R0xx0rd WoW.
@vlad, I missed 80% of it.
我不明白怪胎语言!!!
I understand using the internet to make the english language more efficient like: ur and other word abbreviations, but i am teh roxxzor u r the suxxzor is not english or any recognizable derivation
BTW – what that translates to will depend entirely on which electronic translation you use. Some are scary in how literal!
@kyle – exactly.
What scares me, however, is when it is used in professional-context emails.
Nothing like getting an email from a client:
What ru doin abt that IT issue?
And that might be a doctor or a CIO
:O
Yeah. keep you scalpel far far away from me d00d!
your*
That hurt my head reading it.
@ mercator
可是”怪胎语言” 那么有意思，你一定要学!
@ mercator again
oh, lol, I see how that would translate into something too literal… lol
“I don’t bright white weird fetus language”
xD
Much like the technology of recorded sound over a century ago led to the masses unable to read music, so has the Internet begun to deteriorate the next generation’s ability to write!
Look at how many times he 13373d “the.” Apparently, the way to be coolly nonconformist is strict conformity to a nonconformist trope?
uuuhm… i don’t speak haxx… translate?
Trolls are entertaining.
If language is all about conveying thought and emotion, this email is clearly miscommunicated. Of course, the scribe can get a full refund of the Extra Life podcast subscription fee.
I really hope that was a joke. I fear for our society if that was real.
Lrn 2 spell noob.
I…I…I can’t read it.
It’s just…not…possible!
We should capture this rare specimen and observe more of his language skills. He would give us more insight into how language evolves from the current form of English to this new and facinating use of phonetic and cryptographic devices that maintain the same audible language as English.
Then we will out of mercy, put down the creature and then study it’s brain. As I’m sure it’s tastey and full of flavor… or at least that’s what the Zombies tell me…
@BrianD
I shall get my dissection kit. You get the cookie and beartrap we will meet on 4chan!
WTF??!!??
Wow… I think I just lost some IQ points…
Crap! This means I’m at tripple digits now! Nooooo!
If you forget how he said it and move on to what he said; Yeah I agree. It’s why I stopped listening.
Propane: Didn’t stop you from posting though.
Heh, I’d say a joke. That was… painful to read though.
Lifeisaglitch: I’ll stock up on the Mountain Dew, Red Bull… who knows what other rare specimens we may come across on our exploration of 4chan? We maybe come upon the fabled Angry German kid…
English is a language that was born of the repeated $#@*ing of a culture by outsiders. It’s now continued to be brutalized from within, creating incestuous offspring like izzle and leet. Thankfully, many such monstrosities die. Some don’t. Sometimes, it just take longer for people (usually younger or less mature people) to let a dead meme die, trying to relive dated content as if it were stylish or still exclusive to a group of those who want to believe they’re stylish.
…
Either that or the rest of us are all getting old.
Well … now you americans can feel what it is like to have your language butchered
We haatsen het ! Wij haatsen het voor altijd !
@BrianD
You have my sword.
um excuse me we “americans” have had our language butchered for decades already…. its called the South. AWWW SNAP
i ReAlLy ThInK yOu NeEd To FiDd ThAt PeRsOn AnD gEt ThEm On ThE pHoNe. If ThEy TaLk LiKe ThEy WrItE iT mIgHt Be A fUnNy SeGmEnT.
To the listener: Dude, you need to cut back on the marjaweenie. Seriously.
I hate “leet-speak.” Phooey on anyone who insists on it as a method of communication. Personally I think it’s a symptom of the whole “I’m cooler than you because I live attached to my computer” syndrome that is so prevalent in the IT industry and the online gaming community. I like WoW as much as the next guy, but using words like “pwn” and “noob” would make me feel like my IQ was dropping with each keypress… and don’t even get me started on “FTW!” And it’s mostly for those reasons that I have become kinda antisocial in WoW… I can’t handle hearing it over and over either. I play with RL friends, and that’s it. Sad but true.
Sorry to go all verbose there. I’m better now.
@mentosboy: “AWWW SNAP”
Sure. You meant to be ironic. No?
why would any1 want to speak like that?? isn’t it harder to do? I mean why would you want to learn to type the as Teh? As the imortal Bryan once said. LAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMEEEEE
I realise this is three days late, but thought I have to give my tuppence-worth.
I would just like to state that English, as mongrel and bastardised as it is (not swearing, using the word in context I believe), originated from England, with American English and most other dialects being inter-comprehensible to ‘English’ English (I believe that Jamaican/West Indies English isn’t). English belongs to everyone that speaks it. And as for English being debased or otherwise devalued by 1337/LOLcat/txtspk, English always has been and will be a rich and evolving language, with many dialects and sometimes scores of words with similar meanings but each with its own nuances. There is no actual correct or incorrect way to speak English, as it has no central standarisation body, such as the Académie Française for French, with the general rule of thumb being to communicate with your audience in a manner that they find both appropriate and coherent.
So in response to the email you received, whilst it was not ‘wrong’, it ‘failed epicly’ in communicating its intended message due to the ridicule it elicited.
And finally (although I know I wasn’t meant to start a sentence with ‘and’, let alone let a contraction from spoken English enter into written/typed English), I’d just like to note that I ain’t from England, I’m from this cwtchy but tidy country called Wales right next to it like innit mun. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda Pawb! (For those unfamiliar, there was some Welsh and Wenglish in this paragraph for sarcasm and effect.)
PS, apologies for length/up-my-own-arseness of this post, don’t post often so bottle it up to release when needed =D
PPS, when trying to be arsey and self-righteous, thesaurus.com is an immense help!