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My wife tells me that they will get job applications (or should that be "J/apz0rz"?) that are written with a lot of the l337 stuff added in. The application will then be immediately placed into the round filing cabinet. What I want to know is why someone would even try to use that stuff when applying for a job!
If anyone ever has any trouble with the l337 stuff, here is a handy translator for you.
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Y dont u type sumthing 4 teh rest of us.
Moar lessons plox.
Just typing that gave me a headache........
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Messa..
I wager those same people are the ones (if for some strange reason their app didn't get s-canned) who would show up for an interview dressed "properly".
Meaning, piercings in, blue mohawk, and a Misfits t-shirt. Attire that will REALLY get them taken seriously...... *cough*
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I knew a guy back in high school who was a serious, hardcore punker. This guy was Mr. Anarchy Incarnate. He really lived the punk lifestyle that a lot of people would flirt with, but would never fully walk through the door. He dropped out in the 12th grade, and I didn't see him again until around the late '90's. I almost didn't recognize him because back then he had this mohawk that stood a foot tall from his head, and he used to have a chainsaw blade tatted around his neck, with some Mayan looking tattoos on his face. He also had these spider web tattoos on the backs of his hands. We both did a double take when we saw each other at a street fair. This guy had completely changed. He was in medical school at the time, and was going to become a general practitioner.Originally posted by I_KG100_Prien:
Messa..
I wager those same people are the ones (if for some strange reason their app didn't get s-canned) who would show up for an interview dressed "properly".
Meaning, piercings in, blue mohawk, and a Misfits t-shirt. Attire that will REALLY get them taken seriously...... *cough*
He said that he really regretted getting the tattoos because even though he had undergone several laser treatments to remove them, they were always going to be visible to a degree because he was so fair skinned. He was really worried that patients might shy away from him when they saw what was left of them.
He said that somewhere along the line, he finally gave up the not trying to fit in/accept-me-as-I-am attitude because it was getting him nowhere fast. He cleaned up, straightened up, quit drinking, using, and thieving, and hopefully made a good future for himself.
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I would imagine that people use 'leet' speak because it's incomprehensible by the 'uncool' like us.Lolspeak is also annoying, but less so. "I can haz cheezburger? I iz a crazeh kat. Noa, he be takin mah bukit!"
I understand using such abbreviations like 'u' for 'you' or 'r' for 'are' in cell phone texts because it's difficult to type for some with the alpha-numeric keypad, though I never do it. It is unnecessary and inappropriate for forum posts or emails.
I am however guilty of the sin of using lol, through texts or IL-2 chat, and worst of all, occasionally in conversation. I think it's my parasite word like 'like' is for some. I never say 'ell-oh-ell', just 'lol', so it's become a part of my vocabulary. I never use it in formal conversation.
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IBTL is used quite a bit around here
IIRC, AFAIK and several others are also in common usage on this forum.
I understand that it is so much easier and faster to type this way, and abbreviations can be acceptable on limited character entries, you know, the block where you put your text that counts down how many characters you have left till you get to zero. Ebay is famous for this.
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