I admit to being a bit behind on L33tspeakisms, although I've gotten pretty fluent in MACROeese. I hate plain lousy language use (lack of capitalization or punctuation, sleazy misspellings like "lite" and "thru", even though I occasionally use them), but there really is a knack to stretching the language creatively.
And I love emoticons-- or at least, I did before all the IM programs started turning them into little 3-D smileys that somehow manage not to express the emotion as well as the punctuation marks! One of the oddest mental experiences I've ever had was when I caught myself drawing a smiley on a piece of paper-- only instead of a circle with eyes and mouth, I accidentally sketched a colon followed by a close-parenthesis! Totally blew my mind.
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I can has smileyz?
Date: 2007-08-10 05:17 am (UTC)And I love emoticons-- or at least, I did before all the IM programs started turning them into little 3-D smileys that somehow manage not to express the emotion as well as the punctuation marks! One of the oddest mental experiences I've ever had was when I caught myself drawing a smiley on a piece of paper-- only instead of a circle with eyes and mouth, I accidentally sketched a colon followed by a close-parenthesis! Totally blew my mind.