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Posts matching tags 'leetspeak'
2006/5/12
A US television station blows the lid off "leetspeak", and the paedophilic menace lurking behind its innocent-sounding acronyms:
"LOL" for "laughing out loud" and "TTYL" for "talk to ya later" sound innocent enough, but if you look behind some other acronyms, there could be something sinister.
Apparently the instruction to get one's pants off is so common in the seamy teenage underworld of online chat that there's a four-letter acronym for it.
- "KPC" means "keeping parents clueless."
- "POS" means "parent over the shoulder"
- "GYPO" means "get your pants off."
- "TDTM" means "talk dirty to me"
The article also includes links to helpful websites with names like "Teen Angels" and "Parents' Edge", which specialise in listing the telltale signs your children may be being preyed on by satanists paedophiles via Dungeons & Dragons online chatrooms.
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2006/4/1
A fairly comprehensive explanation of l33tspeak, its origins, variations (including B1FF/newbie/OMGWTFBBQ!!!1!-speak) and cultural connotations. Also, an article on the "-izzle" suffix in hip-hop slang, and Anglicisms in German.
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