Being raised on the internet age, I've become quite familiar with the use of words that has come to be termed 'leetspeak'. It is a use of broken english used primarily on the internet, but has crept it's way into use in real life. Terms like 'teh' (meaning 'the') and 'n00b' (term for 'newbie') originated here. More famously, it has been used in picture of animals as an interpretation of what they are thinking, such as 'lolcats' ('lol' meaning 'laugh out loud') and the Orly Owl ('orly' means 'Oh, really?'). Many also originates from broken english used in video game, such as the famous line from the video game Zero Wing, 'all your base are belong to us'. I was a member of various internet forums for the last 6 years or so, and though not as much as others, I enjoyed reading and using the terms both on the computer and in real life. Of course, I know they're improper and never use them for anything beyond a comedic effect, so when writing and reading something serious, I'm not going to use it. It's just a fun, lazy way to get a language across on a site like Facebook or Twitter, more than anything else.
...I r internet nerd, lol.
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