[martin_fierro]

PWN3D!

[martin_fierro]

Phunny 57uff

[jocon307]

It's like the slang lingo in "A Clockwork Orange" you do start to get the hang of it after a bit.

That to me was the best part of reading that book, at the start I was looking up every single word in the glossary at the back, by the end I was breezing along, comprehending new slang words just by context.

[big'ol_freeper]

They ought to be spending more time making their lousy software more secure instead of educating parents about teenage internet slang.

[BenLurkin]

Common typing misspellings (or typos) such as "teh" instead of "the" are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling.

Aha! I was actually ahead of time -- and all these years I thought I was simply ignorant.

[holymoly]

Not long ago I saw an a news report related to this. A high-school English teacher said his students were using this crap in their homework. As an example, he showed homework in which students had used "b/c" in place of "because". He said it makes him want to scream.

Dear "1337" students:
Don't worry. McDonalds and Burger King are always hiring.

[cowboyway]

Us Southerners are way ahead of this curve.

[supercat]

"kewl": A common derivation of "cool."

I'm pretty certain "kewl" predates on-line chat. It is pronounced differently from "cool"; although dictionary.com lists it as a "humorous spelling" of cool, I tend to think it may be an interjuxtabposition (whatever they're called) of "keen" and "cool".

[Richard Kimball]

I noticed they left out BSOD

[Cedar]

Life has gotten too complicated already. :)