deLEETed

(For a very recent piece on this very subject see Russell Smith in The Globe and Mail, which reads strikingly like wikipedia itself.)
Well, it seems I’ve been hyper out-cooled by a whole generation of folks who’ve developed their own Internet shorthand, called “leet”.
Froget any calls to do a thesis on the language of [...]

I chat, therfore I write

I cut my typing teeth on the computer, or more specifically, I was forced to learn how to type by using on-line messengers and on-line chat rooms. Watching the text of other chatters fly by while I tried to finger out some witticism was a very motivating experience. Chatters seemed so quick and clever with [...]