ROTFL. LOL. Pwn.
Well, you get the drift. These teens are using the slangs garnered from the net in their everyday use. Geez whatever happened to decent spoken English language these days?
[H3][FONT size=5]Teen slang now following Internet shortcuts [/FONT][/H3] [P class=timeStamp]Updated Thu. Feb. 8 2007 12:02 PM ET
[P class=storyAttributes]Canadian Press
[!-- dateline --]EDMONTON [!-- /dateline --]-- In red letters on black, Lana Bachynski's T-shirt shouts out that she rules in three simple words: I pwn noobs.
Noobs means newbies or the inexperienced. And pwn, of course, stands for the word own.
Welcome to teen slang in the age of the Internet.
As text messaging and emailing fast become the dominant mode of correspondence for teens, their slang has taken to both imitating and mocking the very cyber-shortcuts it feeds upon.
Take pwn. Own has become pwn because in the flash-rapid text-messaging keyboard typing process, the letters O and P are often transposed, explains Jordan Ashworth.
"People misspelled it so much that eventually people deliberately started spelling it with a P to be cool,'' he said. "Some people say `pone,' but usually you just say `own' regardless of the P because you know that's what it means.''
Pbviously.
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