Posted on 08/02/2009 7:35:57 AM PDT by DogBarkTree
I think Sarah smoked out the source within her organization.
Thanks, no wonder it’s confusing...
ROFL!
leetspeak - To butcher the English language. Commonly used in text messages to save typing.
leetspeak A form of writing whereby some letters in a word are replaced by a numerical likeness or other letters that create an identical or similar sound.
This style of writing was originally in use by hackers who were attempting to bypass word-filtering on mail servers. For instance, they would use the term ‘haxorz’ to replace ‘hackers’. Internet users new to hacking adopted the style in an attempt to emulate those more experienced, and usage became widely spread.
In recent times the method is almost never used to avoid word-filtering software, but rather to satirise script kiddies and 12 year olds, or to abbreviate for faster typing. It's interesting to note that in most cases it takes more time to type in leetspeak (due to the constant swapping between numbers and letters) than it would take to just type the words properly.
My opinion. If you want to be considered a serious blogger stick to the English language.
I am thrilled to let Sarah be Sarah. Speculation about what she should do drives me nuts. Let Sarah be Sarah. If it is meant for her to be prez she will be.
The main thing is she continue to have a good life.
How would one pronounce it (OK, wise guys, PWN, not IT!)?
If the Iron Lady cultivated her voice, she comes across sounding like she's offering you tea and crumpets.
Don't do it, Sarah.
well, i do hope she’s that type of person. Strategy, it will show she’s smart, give your enemy what they want, and use the false info to destory them.
I hope she does more of it. Leak tonnes of false info out
Just hitlery trying to destroy her logical opponent in 2012.
Almost...it’s a slang variation of “own” or “owned”.
My daughter just put a bumper sticker on her car:
“Sarah Palin 2012 - Change You’ll Be Begging For”
“This is their modus operandi.”
Or ‘odious operandi’ :-D
That's the ONLY area where listening to Sarah makes me cringe. Ironically, it was my dad's commercial fishing background (Sarah has commercial fishing connections in a big way, too, so she should identify) that helped ME recognized and adjust my voice so I was able to be a pretty good radio announcer. Out fishing at sea, the fishermen use the "Mickey Mouse" radios quite a lot, and while most using them were men, there were the occasional women on the boats, and my dad and most other fishermen found the women nearly impossible to understand when they spoke normally; once those women made a conscious effort to speak in a deeper, lower tone, or if a woman happened along who had a naturally deeper voice, there was no problem understanding them.
So in the radio studio, I'd listen to tapes of myself and heard how unintentionally shrill and squeaky my voice was, and lowered my tones SOMEWHAT along the lines of Ted Baxter!!! It WORKED, worked, worked so well. That was some 30 years ago, and it has been one of my most valuable work tools ever since, even having nothing to do with radio. A slightly deeper, lower, controlled, paced speaking voice has an amazingly positive effect on whoever you're speaking to. They trust you more, have more confidence in you, and feel calmer themselves.
I hope Sarah takes Maggie's advice and "cultivates" her voice.
Yeah exactly, why would she make up a lie about herself? That’s not a good thing, even if you did want to prove a point.
Great story; and yes. ..hope she hear 'Maggie' as well. Maybe you could share YOUR story/lol. . .
OMG! WTF? PWND 4 LIFE!
Yes, it must have been a Palin plant. It couldn’t possibly just be left wing bloggers making crap up.
Leftist wingnuts wouldn’t do that, would they?
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