On 12/20/05, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:27:27PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
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>>Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>>Never take the advice of people who use spellings like
>>>"kewel", "n33t", and abbreviate "you" to "u", etc.
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>>Could you please explain me why? Just to know
>>And what does kewel means? :-P
>>am I very ignorant?
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>No. They are.
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It seems to me that some of you folks are being a bit too harsh on users
of such spellings. I've known plenty of "kids"[1] who speak leet who are
[ otherwise ;-) ] very smart. "Don't judge a book by it's cover"; "Don't
stereotype"; etc, and all that ....
Footnote:
1. I've also known adults who have dabbled in leet, who are quite sharp.
choosing to communicate in an incomprehensible way on the wide public forum doesn't strike me as particularly smart.
-a