I have to agree with this. Duffer, please give me 5 examples of Dopers using leetspeak as a way to attack Bush. If not, please kindly admit that you intentionally used this form of argument in an attempt to typify anti-Bush individuals as mindless individuals who follow a trend.
I have often seen the “teh suxxor” usage, but I regard that as more of joke *about * leetspeak than an actual example.
And it seemed to appear most often in the posts of the dearly departed Brutus, if I remember aright.
I’d settle for one example. I have yet to someone use leetspeak on the SDMB on their own behalf; I have always seen it used to malign the argumentation of others.
Sadly, I suspect this is will get the same response that Duffer gave when when challenged on his creative interpretation of “STFU” – which is to say, none.
Didn’t know about that one! “Stop Talking For Us?” Gotta give it five points for raw chutzpah.
The speech excerpts I saw were really quite fascinating and educational.
You people really do pronounce it vee-hickle.
What grabbed my ear was “pen-in-shu-la”. :dubious:
I have no clue what you mean by this or how my most recent post ties in with it.
Nor do I. I only said he was a malevolent toad and a minion of Satan. Whole different thing there. Please indicate, since you have enclosed these phrases in quotes, where I have used them in this thread.
Yet not a single person in this thread, or anyone else on this board that I know of, has ever said anything of the sort. Since you seem to be responding to my post, I would like to inform you that I have never in my entire posting history here responded to anyone in Leetspeak, even as parody. I may have used ‘teh’ a few times.
I’m looking back through the thread, and I don’t see anyone piling on you for supporting Bush. Certainly I haven’t. I could start if you like.
Again, no one, and certainly not me, is asking you to abandon the GOP.
I notice you do this sort of pre-emptive accusation all the time. Usually, it seems to be unfounded. Why do you insist on prefacing your every post with an accusation that you are going to be ‘piled on’ simply for posting? Why don’t you wait to see if you get piled on first, then complain about it if it actually happens?
How do you pronounce it in Oz?
To be fair, many Dopers have speculated that the Bush Admin is tending towards dictatorship. (Certainly it has acted more arrogantly and unilaterally than any Admin in living memory.) As for “raping liberty,” the “Free Speech Zones,” disregard of habeas corpus, and all the rest of it are rather alarming, to say the least, even if we’re nowhere near turning into a full-blown police state.
How far above poverty? You’re pretty damn poor if you’re officially poor. You could be unofficially poor and still not paying a hell of a lot in taxes. Hell, you could be officially lower middle class and not paying a hell of a lot in taxes.
Nah, this stinks to high heaven. I know you like reducing taxes. I like the IDEA of this plan, but you’re going to have to demonstrate to me that it will make a difference to the people who are uninsured. I view the whole proposal with great scepticism on its merits, and that’s even before I take into consideration who came up with it … Mr. “Let’s Dump Social Security.”
Kah.
(or Via’kl).
Just don’t base ordinary or regional American accents on how Bush er, speaks. To me, he’s like Liberace or Lawrence Welk–his accent is an amalgam of sounds unheard anywhere except where he is. My brother lives in Texas, I know people from Texas–they don’t speak like W does.
Love the newspaper headline!
I couldn’t listen to him. I can’t listen to him. Point well taken that we should listen to the man, but I just can’t. I will read the transcript after I digest some food…
Sorry. My writing was unclear. I was referring to the Leetspeak thing, not the Tyrant thing, which, in fact was just about the first word from the OP.
That said, the first place in this thread where I see the phrases “Tyrannical Dictator” and “Raping Liberty” is in duffer’s post, so I don’t know what exactly he’s quoting, other than himself.