Can we all agree that “repeating back the other guy’s opinion with bad grammar and spelling, typos, AOL-style acronyms, the non-word ‘teh’, and 11’s in place of exclamation points” is an ineffective argument, and too trite to be funny? Thanks.
But we R L33t!
I find it really annoying, too, but can you provide a cite for the behaviour? I don’t think I’ve seen it on the boards recently…
Now that Brutus isn’t around the usage has dropped quite a bit, but it still pops up now and then.
Aren’t you preaching to the choir here? Could you have picked a more articulate board to post this on?
Terrible pitting, and the complaints on this style of typing are as tired as the style itself. I give this rant a -1.
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Aren’t you preaching to the choir here? Could you have picked a more articulate board to post this on?
Terrible pitting, and the complaints on this style of typing are as tired as the style itself. I give this rant a -1.
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Goddamn French judges.
wAl7ER W1nch1Ll is the SUx0R2!11!
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Goddamn French judges.
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You shoulda offered them something better than Velveeta, dummy. 
You misspelled “teh,” Lev.
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill]
Goddamn French judges.
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Now Now Walter, it’s not that I’m hard on you because I don’t believe in you - in fact quite the contrary, I’m hard on you precisely because I do believe in you. I know your next rant will be a significant improvement. Shoot for a 2 or 3.
Sure you want to ban OMG! First, they take God out of our schools, then out of the pledge, and then…the acronyms! They’ll stop at nothing!
I think it’s about as cute as the inevitable “why do you hate America?” that pops up in every anti-Bush thread. I don’t think we’re going to see the end of either any time soon.
The correct usage is “!!!twenty-five!!!”
… and when they came for my l33t speech, I was all, “dude, sif.”
Here, Walter, you forgot your teeth. Should I yell at the kids to get off the lawn, now?
This is a small part of why I stopped visiting the WoW forums–in addition you get rampant ASCII art (at least until they cracked down on it), every stupid cliche known to man (and a few known to orcs), and, my personal un-favorite, mis-quoting someone and adding the words ‘Fixed it for you’. Most of these ‘jokes’ weren’t funny when they started.
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Sure you want to ban OMG! First, they take God out of our schools, then out of the pledge, and then…the acronyms! They’ll stop at nothing!
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Nah. The acronym is incorrect. It should be OMFG. 
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Nah. The acronym is incorrect. It should be OMFG.
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Clothahump FTW.
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Nah. The acronym is incorrect. It should be OMFG.
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I have not seen OMFG in several years. The last I remember seeing it is shortly before I first observed the appearance of ZOMG. It was my understanding, since I see ZOMG being used as a more “intense” version of OMG, that ZOMG had simply usurped OMFG in popular usage. Or, is there some finer nuance between the two onto which I have not yet caught?