I get called a choob everyday it seems....what the hell is a choob!?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes please someone clear this up? Lol. I'm pretty sure it's yet another (brings the count to about infinity now) form of the word "noob".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choob = Chubby noob

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It seems you're being insulted for your nubbyness (Or lack there of :?: )and your weight as well (Which is strange, because chances are they don't even know your physical body -.- ...)

The phrase "lmao" baffled me for about a year. I thought it was a form of calling someone a lame-o in E-language. :oops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me too. I also thought ROFL had something to do with waffles for like two years. It also took my a while to figure out pl0x...I thought it was some kind of desiese (not sure if I spelled that one right). It went from Please, To pleez, to plz, to plx, to pl0x. Why is that 0 in there for? -.- Some other ones that baffled me were atm,ftw,urw, and countless others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The other day I saw someone say "Selliing lobbsiez for 250 geeps!!!11!"

 

 

 

I'm not making that up,either :shock:.

Narb

 

 

 

I noes / I gnoes / Eye Nose (I know)

 

 

 

Hai / Bai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"selling lobbies!!!!" - is it really much harder to just type out "lobster" if your

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If i type "Lobster" i have to go from the letters "B to S to T to E then R" (after lob)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Lobbie" just involves a double tap of the b (Much faster) and the I and E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's what i figure anyway.

f-f--s-haven't heard that anywhere else

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also i've never seen "s-d-f--u" anywhere besides RuneScape, seen it with a t before, is it supposed to be shut ?da? bleep up?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, pot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had no idea what "selling pray pots!" meant for the longest time. :wall:

I always thought Dh stood for Dragon Hide.. So one day I said buying full blue Dh and someone traded me full dharok.. :-k

"selling unids" I've heard this ever since i've join rs members, found out yesterday that it was "unidetified herb(s)". Im over here looking at my herblore guide looking for "Unid herbs" or "unid pots" :wall: :lol:

People replaceing letters with numbers..... I hate that =;

wot u on about m8?

i had are hard time deciphering ffs

 

 

 

i even had to ask on the forums for the meaning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but pl0x will forever put a smile on my face

 

 

 

I happen to be twelve. People have to stereotype twelve-year-olds, don't they? >>

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well to be honest, you shouldn't even be playing Runescape, it's 13+...

noob, nub, and all instances of "NEWB"!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Dh for Dharok has to be one of the worst. Abby whips for abyssal whips is pretty bad as well. Most text messaging lingo such as 'wut' and '4' is pretty pathetic too. I type everything out even on my cellphone and these kids can't type one more character to make 'what.' It's kinda sad if you ask me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I'd rather spell everything out so I don't look like an illiterate or a 12 year old. In game and irl :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I happen to be twelve. People have to stereotype twelve-year-olds, don't they? >>

 

 

 

 

 

 

A stereotype is always generally speaking. Which means there are always exceptions. Don't get offended by it, deal with it. You know just as me that we don't mean people like you. But well, other people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Ltje said. If you can type like you atleast tried in school, then I respect what you have to say. I was actually surprised to see a twelve-year-old type as well as you did. I'm sorry. In the nine or ten years I've been on the Internet, my experience has been that younger users (myself included at one point in time) find it cool to type like a kid with Down Syndrome. I'm kinda more lenient on people who are outside the US since English is usually their second language (or third or fourth) language. Although I've seen many people in such a situation who type better than people from the US.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, for the longest, I thought Runescape was full of racist because I got several private messages from people who would type 'wp.' After a while, I realized they meant 'wrong person' and not 'white power.' #-o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And for the record, I believe that even with a cellphone, shorthand isn't necessary unless your phone has a low limit on the number of characters per message. Word completion is the key. My boss use to hand me his phone when he had to send a text message because he was so slow. Although, I don't really know if that's something I should be bragging about. :oops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I find Britain's version of English on par with some of the shorthand and abbreviations I hear on the Internet sometimes. I really wonder sometimes if we both share the same language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe that if you want to be taken seriously, proper spelling and grammar goes a long way. One of my best friends online now that I talk to is a older fella with kids who play as well. One of the main reasons I enjoy talking to him (besides the fact that he has been incredibly nice to me and I can talk to him about anything from what I'm doing to my drug habit and anything in between) is the fact that he types well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, how hard is it to use a damn dictionary? I've got dictionary.com added a search engine on Firefox and I used it several times on this post to spell things I wasn't sure of. Hell, Firefox 2.0 has underlined several things already for me and I fixed it everything with a red line under.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hate 'plz' too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry for the long post. I just got home from work, got some food in my belly and I'm working on getting my itch now.

I hate "Skimmy"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It pronounced SSSSSSS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

not SK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

arrr

I have to post this: last night I was in a bank fletching, when a guy said "I need help, can somebody tell me how to make a pot?". I'm so used to people yelling "Buying prayer pots! Selling str pots!" and so forth, so I began explaining to him how he should go about making a potion. It took a while for me to understand that he wanted to know how to make a pot, with clay, and not a potion. #-o

lol = laugh out loud...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lol means "fun" in dutch, so i was very surprised that everyone on runescape used a dutch word for something funny... :lol:

I think the lingo is a good thing humans have a way of surviving in any situation and making things simpler and faster not everyone is fast at typing or a super speller not even adults and lingo is very useful and quite clever really, the art isn't knowing all the lingo but being able to understand what people mean, which is a good life skill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for typing 4 instead of for on your phone its not lazy it cleaver, text messages used to have a silly character limit that is now greatly increased but it was a way of fitting your message into the limit, how anyone can call this stupid is beyond me, shortening words to get more information into a sentence is cleaver surely you can see that.

Dh for Dharok has to be one of the worst. Abby whips for abyssal whips is pretty bad as well. Most text messaging lingo such as 'wut' and '4' is pretty pathetic too. I type everything out even on my cellphone and these kids can't type one more character to make 'what.' It's kinda sad if you ask me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I'd rather spell everything out so I don't look like an illiterate or a 12 year old. In game and irl :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dude, typing something on your computer or your cellphone is a whole different thing you know.

 

 

 

I have to pay 12eurocent each 150letters I type, I'm not really rich so I'm not going to type everything out. :wall:

 

 

 

Typing on a computer doesn't cost you anything( except for your internet costs or something :roll: ) so than it's normal you type everything out... \

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I never understood is bs... it's BowString, but in wild it means something else? Like [cabbage]? or BackStab?

 

Dh for Dharok has to be one of the worst. Abby whips for abyssal whips is pretty bad as well. Most text messaging lingo such as 'wut' and '4' is pretty pathetic too. I type everything out even on my cellphone and these kids can't type one more character to make 'what.' It's kinda sad if you ask me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I'd rather spell everything out so I don't look like an illiterate or a 12 year old. In game and irl :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I happen to be twelve. People have to stereotype twelve-year-olds, don't they? >>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, I always found that 'buy lobbz' and 'sel lobbz' are the most annoying, but 'Dh' for Dharok armour is irritating too--I keep thinking dragonhide. :/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 is just a random number that people use because you are not quite a teenager yet. I like to tell people that they are acting like a 12-year-old. Fun. You should try it sometime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I personally can't stand it when people randomly abbrieviate words that don't need to be abbrieviated. Also, RS won't let you capitalize "I". It's always just "i", and I can't stand it! :evil:

two acronyms that confused me for the longest time were ftw (for the win) and imho (in my honest opinion). When people said these I used to think they were cussing at me :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still cant figure out what (h) means. I was told once but the connection between (h) and what it means was so obscure that I can't remember it.

 

So many people don't know what "tbh" means. I try using it online with friends and no one gets it. So I'm not exactly sure where "tbh" came from, if it was RS or not, but it's definitely RS lingo.

To be honest. ^_^;

i figured that one out myself a while ago ^_^

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bs can mean 3 things in rs... bull (poo), bow strings, and back stab...

two acronyms that confused me for the longest time were ftw (for the win) and imho (in my honest opinion). When people said these I used to think they were cussing at me :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still cant figure out what (h) means. I was told once but the connection between (h) and what it means was so obscure that I can't remember it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you have msn? if so, type in (h) and you'll see what it means :wink:

 

 

 

If not...

 

 

 

and I think the 'h' means 'hot' or something? :-k

rofl, lmao, tbh, imo, abby, dh, addy. they all make me cringe

what does imo mean anyways?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: now i remember, nfs, idk, idc, etc.

m8 is an abbreviation of the very Australian term "mate", which can be used in reference to your dearest friend, someone you just meet or anywhere in between. It is the equivalent to the American buddy (if that term is still in use). I started using this contraction about a year ago when i started playing... could i be a trendsetter... hmmmm, is destroying the english language something to be proud of?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mate is a British word.