Okay, I *know* none of you would do this...

[conuly]

But just in case, this is my normal rant about l337 and chtspk.

Please remember that some people use textreaders. Some textreaders are very old and can't even translate ALL CAPS. I don't think any can correctly translate l337. Since you're online, you have no way of knowing which of your friends are blind, or dyslexic, or think that the technology is just oh so cool.

Please remember that other people aren't native speakers of English or have other problems reading nonstandard spelling.

Please remember that l337 and chtspk make you look really, really stupid and/or ignorant.

Please remember that it is fucking rude to type lIk Dys. Don't. Ever.

Thank you.

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[codeman38.livejournal.com]

...Whoa. How did you manage to make heads or tails of that? I probably could given enough time, but it would take far longer than is necessary... why couldn't they just write it out normally to begin with? >_<

And this is for someone with English as a native language. If English isn't your primary language, it'll only be worse...