Talk:Internet Slang

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Contents 1 What the Cr4p? 2 7h3 4lph4b37 3 LØL ØM6 BBQ!!!!111oneeleven 4 Don't Forget Biz Cas Fri 5 Emoticon in suntan

What the Cr4p?

Since when did we pronounce "Teh Ch8t" as "The Ch-eight-et"?? I thought it was well understood that "Teh Ch8t" translated to "The Cheat". (We're going for "What it means", not "How it's pronounced".) —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 17:56, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Indeed. — It's dot com 18:00, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree, it was preety well before. Maybe it just sounds like that because saying "Teh Ch8t" in proper English would sound more like "The Chait," which may sound like an Australian accent. ♥ _tee^eff_oh! 18:56, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I think it should be consistent with the fun fact here. Change the fact or change the page. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 19:22, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I see how you can get "The Chaitt" out of that, but that's still talking about how it's pronounced. This page isn't addressing that - it's addressing what the Leetspeak MEANS, and it's pretty clear that "Ch8t" = Cheat, regardless of how it's pronounced. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:50, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Oww... Now I understand! — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 05:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh. Thanks skunkdude. ♥ _tee^eff_oh! 13:04, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

7h3 4lph4b37

(for all those not very fluent in leetspeak, that up there says "the alphabet)

I have an idea for the page...maybe do another table that show each letter in the normal English alphabet (i.e. a, b, c, etc.), but then give the letters that require it their translation into leetspeak (i.e. a=4, t=7, e=3, etc.). Just an idea. ♥ _tee^eff_oh! 13:08, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Not needed. This is not an article about leetspeak, but about leetspeak in the Homestar Runner cartoons. There's a link to the Wikipedia article with much more information on the subject. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 13:15, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

LØL ØM6 BBQ!!!!111oneeleven

I'm wondering if we're deviating a bit from true Leetspeak on this page by listing things like "omg", "g2g", "hooray4dolphins", etc. (I just added "hooray4dolphins" myself, but that's mainly because we also have g2g and omg up there.) Should we distinguish between Leetspeak and commonly accepted shortcuts that aren't necessarily "Leet"? Because if you want to be technically accurate about it, "omg", "lol", "g2g", etc., are not Leet - they abbreviate phrases rather than replacing individual letters with numbers, codes, etc. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 18:01, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

What if this page was moved to a new name? How about Internet Slang? — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 18:06, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm good with that. After reading the Wikipedia article on Leet, I believe we should make this article a more general article on Internet Slang, which includes Leet. But "hooray4dolphins", "omg", etc. are not Leet. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Don't Forget Biz Cas Fri

Homestar was "ROTF" in Biz Cas Fri ... ummmmmm ... 3? -- Mycroft Holmes 19:33, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Added! :) —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Emoticon in suntan

^_~ was used there. I've always considered emoticons part of internet slang. -- Mycroft Holmes 19:41, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmm... do you think we should distinguish between emoticons and slang phrases? I think there are quite a few more occurrences of emoticons throughout the HSR universe than there are L33t and abbreviations... perhaps not - dunno. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 19:45, 9 December 2005 (UTC)