Sunday, March 09, 2008

The Children, Who Are Our Cyphers

OMG! WTF! ROFLMAO! SOS! DOD! ISO! C3P0! 2FAST2FURIOUS! AVP!

Cellphones, instant messaging, e-mail and the like have encouraged younger users to create their own inventive, quirky and very private written language. That has given them the opportunity to essentially hide in plain sight. They are more connected than ever, but also far more independent.
Dear New York Times,

That "inventive, quirky, and very private written language" is a simple phonetic substitution with a couple of abbreviations. If Mom & Dad can't crack it, the problem isn't that they're old, it's that they're retarded.

Love,
IOZ

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm old and retrded. Pls dnt abrviate recipies. I get tsp and tbs mixed up! Had the bucatini 2nite. OMG grt!! But couldn't find Bugatini 2day so used perciatelli which seemed 2 wrk gd. Hope u dnt mind.

drip

Anonymous said...

kids use words that grown-ups don't understand? what a scoop!

The Promiscuous Reader said...

Good point, Oz.

Yr Hmbl & Obdt Svt,

The Promiscuous Reader

Professor Coldheart said...

That's a stone groove. I mean, out of sight, daddy-o. Lay that wind on me.

Anonymous said...

I'm old, too, but didn't we have our "own language"? Granted it was more verbal than written.
I believe we called it something like "Pig Latin"?
Catch you on the flip side....

almostinfamous said...

nobody tell them about the LOLcat repository that is the internet!

Anonymous said...

LDO

puppylander said...

U.P.:up

Anonymous said...

Maybe Senator Ted Stevens could help out.

Anonymous said...

fo' shizzle.

hylen said...

LOL

cavjam said...

The retarded are often sweet and trying so hard; moms and pops just be indolent.

Anonymous said...

speaking of the Grey Lady...
Bob Herbert this morning: The American Dream is in danger of ending for millions of Americans.
Thoughts?
Opinions?
Notions?

Tom Truthful

almostinfamous said...

The American Dream is in danger of ending for millions of Americans.

about goddamn time they woke up and smelled the bullshit that they are being drowned in.

MsZilla said...

Thanks for the inspiration. I was having trouble coming up with an article and this one gave me what I needed.

I hope you really sent this post as an email to the reporter who wrote that.

;) Oh, and Hi IOZ, from MsZilla