Do j00 mean “gangsta”?

Gangsta is teh 133t!!!!!1!!!!

j00 R pwned!!!!!!1!one!!!!

w00t!

(I’m 34)

The exception to this: Lolcats.
Lolcats is always cool.

yo, g, ’sup? I M 34 also ftw!

w00t!

Heh, I really needed to feel OLD on a Friday afternoon

That’s not grammar, it’s spelling.
Goddamn kids on the goddamn internet …

Love it!
I’m 22 and I can’t even bring myself to use shortened words (e.g. “u” instead of “you”) in text messages.
If I’m writing an email, I have to remind myself that it is acceptable to use contractions.
I remember briefly using some of these words though when I was a teenager and IMed a lot, though.

mebbe ur jsut not a 1337 h4xx0r lmao!!!1one!

I’m 60 and some of my favorite sites are Cheezburger, HotDog and Cute Overload. These days when I’m writing words that end in “s,” I need to try hard to remember to not spell it with a “z” on the end. In high school (back in the Dark Ages), we had signs in every room that said “Say it in Good English.” Many of them had been cut and pasted to read “Say it in Goolish.”

Win.

I’m twelve. Whenever I see people type like they’re having a seizure on their desks, it makes me sick.. >.>;
I know SO many people that could use those words in a sentence and make themselves look more illiterate than they already are.

The only thing better than people who WRITE that way is people who are trying to be cool and SPEAK that way.
My friends husband yesterday SAID “i pnwed him” and “i’ll have you R O T F L O L ing.” OUT LOUD.

HA AHAHAHA!

apparently, there really is no country left for old men (and women).

get over it. it’s just how things are. not right or wrong.

This smacks of people afraid of challenge and change. Or better yet, those who take funny sites like this too seriously. During the day I am a technical communicator. However, by night I lolspeak on the webs. I can somehow manage not to feel threaten by those who do as well.

85+50+2 is not a percentage breakup idiot

I’m 14 and am one of the few who use proper spelling and grammer. Almost everybody abbreviates ‘you’ to ‘u’ and ‘are’ to ‘r’ but a very small percentage actually do the whole ‘i am teh l337 pwnster i own teh hole intawebz!!!!11one!111!!!eleven!!1′ act. Lots use initials like ‘lol’ ‘lmao’ ‘rofl’ ‘ift’ but not ones like ‘ftw’ which is considered immature and ‘noobish’ (They do not use the last word). However I don’t know what ‘pron’ means. Can somebody help me out?

It truly doesn’t matter. Every generation has had their own lingo. This too will pass. The english language has been changed with every new generation as a way to define who they are and to obfuscate their language from adults. This particular generation has been defined by a culture which is attempting to do everything that the main stream would consider outrageous. By trying to set themselves apart from other cultures they have identified with these children and thus they themselves have become the main stream. Ie, the JC Pennys ad which spoke of getting your girlfriend more “bling”. I grew up in the late 80’s / early 90’s and we had our own peculiarities that defined us. Of course most of us were able to fill out a job or college application without having to spend hours thinking about the proper spelling. Oh well, more jobs for those of us who can use the language properly.

I’m 17 and I use a few of the more common contractions. It’s pretty annoying though when people spell badly or use incorrect grammar because they think it’s cool, or when they skip punctuation out of laziness. Anyways, I think things like pwn, noob and even lolcats are starting to get old now, so now we can just wonder what it’ll be next.

Amirite?