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Internet "speak" makes it's way into everyday language? Or is it happening now?
I ask as I've just seen a post saying "roffle" I wasn't sure if this was a typo or whether it was the beginnings of a new word.
eg:
"So and so told me a joke the other day, it was so good I was roffling all over the place"
Bearing this in mind what other words or phrases do you thin may become common practice in day to day language that allude directlty to the internet, or indeed the mobile phone?
Phil
I ask as I've just seen a post saying "roffle" I wasn't sure if this was a typo or whether it was the beginnings of a new word.
eg:
"So and so told me a joke the other day, it was so good I was roffling all over the place"
Bearing this in mind what other words or phrases do you thin may become common practice in day to day language that allude directlty to the internet, or indeed the mobile phone?
Phil
Mannginger said:
Internet "speak" makes it's way into everyday language? Or is it happening now?
I ask as I've just seen a post saying "roffle" I wasn't sure if this was a typo or whether it was the beginnings of a new word.
eg:
"So and so told me a joke the other day, it was so good I was roffling all over the place"
Bearing this in mind what other words or phrases do you thin may become common practice in day to day language that allude directlty to the internet, or indeed the mobile phone?
Phil
roffle? don't you mean rofl?
anyway, wouldn't worry about it, chavspeak is dominant, innit.
sccbishop said:
lam3r
link below said:
"l4m3r - Lamer, someone who is lame, someone who uses an unfair tactic or generally makes the things around him or her less fun."
I guess that my lack of knowledge makes me a "n00b" then?
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A787917
Phil
Mannginger said:
l33t
Eh!?
Phil
It means "Sad bastard with nothing better to do than copy other peoples' published techniques for breaking into computers running operating systems which are so badly designed as to make it a trivial operation, then wank all over his keyboard".
Mannginger said:
[quote=link below]"l4m3r - Lamer, someone who is lame, someone who uses an unfair tactic or generally makes the things around him or her less fun."
"Lamer" started out in online circles well over a decade ago (could well have been a good 20+ years ago). It generally referred to someone who thought they were an "elite" hacker, but really weren't. Typically, someone that had got their hands on a copy of "Jolly Rogers Cookbook", and nothing more. This is back in the days when hacking was based on blue-boxing, beige-boxing, etc, and "online circles" actually meant BBS systems.
Ah, those were the days...
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