Thursday, April 20, 2006

Talk dirty to me

I was mildly amused by this article, which was forwarded to me by a coworker a few moments ago. It's an "expose" from a local news station in San Diego warning parents about "Leet-speak" (aka l33t), which it describes as a "complicated, cryptic and potentially dangerous" internet "jargon." (It failed to mention, however, that it's also "totally obnoxious" and "loser-ific")

"'There are too many predators out there that could endanger their kids' lives or could sexualize them too early by sending unwanted messages and pictures and things like that and Leet-speak is just a gateway to all of that,' said family therapist Barbara Melton.'

So, how bad is Leet-speak? Here are some examples:

KPC: Keeping Parents Clueless
POS: Parent Over the Shoulder
GYPO: Get Your Pants Off
TDTM: Talk Dirty To Me

It gets even sneakier. Some words replace letters with numbers and symbols."

Gasp! Watch out kids...they're so on to you...

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