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[erratio]

Yesterday I got permission from one of my Linguistics lecturers to do my final essay on the topic of leetspeak. Namely whether it's a register, dialect, or whatever. Or to put it more generally, what are the features of leetspeak and what pigeonhole can I put it in as a result :p
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Todays XKCD comic is incredibly sad, especially the alt-text. So being bored and all I went to the forums to see what other people thougt of it (it's been a looong time since he did a completely serious comic). And I found this:

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

It's a poem by Margaret Atwood, by the way.

Comments

[heinypoo.livejournal.com]

for some reason i REALLY REALLY like that poem

[bobsiow.livejournal.com]

margaret atwood could use some prozac. we had one of her poems in our hsc english stimulus, apparently it had to do with depression... i thought it was about alzheimer's :P

this is em, btw.

[erratio.livejournal.com]

I read one of her books for Year 11. I like her writing style but yeh she's good at the depressing shit.

also, hi!

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, I love XKCD. One of the few comics to which I subscribe in Google Reader.

What's Leetspeak?

[erratio.livejournal.com]

aka 1337speak, or 13375P34|< if you really want to go heavily into it. That's what leetspeak is at its most basic level, then add a whole lot of acornyms, abbreviations, verbing of nouns and vice versa and words that don't exist in normal conversation (like noob and pwn) and you have leetspeak.

So, who are you, mystery person?

[(Anonymous)]

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