But as I say, for me, it involves engaging a different mental process from what I would normally describe as ‘reading’. If others had to do the same, I could well imagine them frustratedly describing the passage as ‘incomprehensible’ or ‘gibberish’. In truth, when I look back at it, it’s not nearly the worst example of obscure pidgin posting I’ve seen.
Its not really hard at all. Its slow. Calculus is hard. Quantum physics is hard. This is just laborious.
Like with the keyboard thing. If I rearranged a touch typist’s keyboard (or just gave a dvorak keyboard to a qwerty typist), it wouldn’t be hard for them to tontinue to type - all the letters woukd still be perfectly visible and usable, it would be laboriously slow.
The point of the grammar and spelling at the beginning and end of the work in question was designed to make the reader understand that the person writing the diary was a moron. I don’t think that was the idea in the post being discussed. At least I hope not.
Part of the trouble with that post was that, once I got the hang of figuring out the leetspeak, the problem being presented was not interesting enough to reward the effort of deciphering. So both the situation presented and the way that it was presented tended to lower expectations about the OP.
And a reminder that we just spent 3 pages discussing the quality of a post by someone who has made one and only one post on this MB, and by all indications will never make another.