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Friday September 20, 2002

09:51 AM

[ #7862 ]

An unusually funny comment on Slashdot about students using 'leet speak in the classroom can be found here.

When tchrist ruled #perl, that sort of thing just didn't happen. :-)

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"u" vs. "you" (Score:1)

by exeunt (319)

When I see someone use "u" as oppsed to "you", I always ask them: "Wow, you saved two letters in writting 'u' instead of 'you', what is that, a few miliseconds?"

Don't get me started on 'ne1'... ;)
- Re:"u" vs. "you" (Score:2)
  
  by vsergu (505)
  
  They're only using "U" for "you" because they think it's cool to be Dutch.
Nonsense (Score:1)

by pudge (1)

The teacher says "If I see this in your assignments, I will take points off." If I were the teacher, I'd flunk them if I saw it more than once. You get a C if you use it once, an F if twice.