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12-13-2003, 10:14 PM

In response to those two posts, both are correct. L33t speak is a form of slang, much as teenagers always invent slang.

If we move away from l33t to txt msg type speaking its really just a shorter form of transmitting messages, used to reduce transmission time, although reception decoding time will be increased. It is an imposition on the time of your audience (the decoding time) so for example in the Lounge it is considered disrespectful to impose such a cost on your audience, compared with elsewhere.

I would also say that three other factors influence the Lounge language policies:
- Non-native English speakers (It would be harder to get quality posts from non-native speakers here if non-standard English is used)
- Average age (Although I would find this hard to argue, but the higher ave. age here than elsewhere probably increases the resistance to slang)
- Differentiation through knowledge rather than language

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