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Do j00 mean “gangsta”?
Gangsta is teh 133t!!!!!1!!!!
j00 R pwned!!!!!!1!one!!!!
w00t!
(I’m 34)
I have no idea how to read any of this, and I am 26.
Umm I guess 25 year olds don’t know any of those words either, Kevin. And Jessica I spell out my words in email too
I can read it, but never use it. (I’m 15)
14. I spell like this as a joke, and it’s not “gangsta.” It’s gamer.
I notice that it goes from 0-10 to 11-14, then 14 to 17, then 17 to 29, 30-39, then 40+. Half is right but half is wrong – which category do you come under if you’re 14, 17 or 20?
The exception to this: Lolcats.
Lolcats is always cool.
I can haz pr0n?
Pr0n iz kewl! ftw!
Indeed, writing correct grammar and spelling is unacceptable at icanhascheezburger.com
no dude, lolcats is so over
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 …
Yeah, those kids of today. Why, when I was their age, I was out chopping wood at the crack of dawn, and then I walked 30 miles to school. You can be sure WE didn’t have these damned electronic gizmos. And everyone knew how to spell. If you missed a word, the teacher would beat you till blood came out your ears. I lost my little brother in a spelling bee that way.
When I was their age, a Palm Pilot was a 14 year old with a copy of Playboy stashed under his mattress…
Thanks for the insight into your awful childhood. My heart bleeds. Dunno what it has to do with my comment, and the heading of the original post is still bloody stupid.
Have a nice weekend trying to be funny!
Of course you had an anvil strapped to your back, were walking barefoot over snow and broken glass, and it was uphill both ways?
Right?
hehehe. Pretty much what I thought too =P
u r has awesome username for this. =D
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.
I’m also guilty of using proper grammar and spelling in text messages and e-mails and I’m 22 as well. Hell, I even do it in IMs. However, I like to actually speak like that sometimes. That’s it, though.
Nothing further.
I’m with you, Jessica! I’m 21, and I always type everything out, thought occasionally I’ll give in and use ty or yw in chat. lol(I use that one too). I just feel like people will think i’m uneducated or not understand me if I use these stupid internet shorthand words…
Twenty-two? I’m Fourteen and I don’t use Text-Speak. . . . Although I may as well be the only person my age who doesn’t . . . Hell I don’t even write like that when passing notes in classes.
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 think he meant percentage in each age group that thinks that. But, you did just totally pwn him and point out that he’s a n00b. So, good job!
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?
you don’t know what it means because you’re fourteen, I presume.
and, also being in that faithful 11-14 category, I’ve got to agree. I consciously use correct spelling and grammar (I don’t capitalise, but I don’t think that’s necessary on an online forum). I do use abbreviations like imo, ftr, jsyk, tyvm and such, though.
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?
I can read it to just I never use it (I’m 11)
Wait, 11-14, then 14-17?
Which do 14-year-olds go into?
omg its not “gangsta” its freakin gamer (o btw best time ever on a 24 hr clock is 13:37!)