[PoliticalDestrcution]

Touché. I think he has the argument.

[d0g F1R3]

well thanks for the explanation guys........AMXMODX "scripting" FTW

[GrimReaperCdn]

Over use of dots and acronyms or other wise known as "chat-speak" is not for the win.

And welcome to the community d0g F1R3. You have interesting way of spelling "dog FIRE", was "dog FIRE" already taken?

[Lord_Destros]

Originally Posted by GrimReaperCdn Over use of dots and acronyms or other wise known as "chat-speak" is not for the win.

Tell that to the pirate in your signature...

[GrimReaperCdn]

Originally Posted by Lord_Destros Tell that to the pirate in your signature...

An onomatopoeia happens to be an actual literary device and can be grammatically correct, if thats what you were referring to.
On the other hand, I don't find emoticons as a part of chat-speak, do you?

[d0g F1R3]

Originally Posted by GrimReaperCdn And welcome to the community d0g F1R3. You have interesting way of spelling "dog FIRE", was "dog FIRE" already taken?

to be completely honest with you i dont know lol.....thats just how ive always put my name

[Rolnaaba]

language: 1337
users: usually used by non-elite people.

[GrimReaperCdn]

Originally Posted by Rolnaaba language: 1337 users: usually used by non-elite people.

haha. i think it was started by the elite, but now that so many non-elite people use it, the elite people have dropped it and figured out that grammatically correct English is in fact more elite than 1337-Speak.

Originally Posted by d0g F1R3 to be completely honest with you i dont know lol.....thats just how ive always put my name

Just Wondering.

[Rolnaaba]

Originally Posted by GrimReaperCdn haha. i think it was started by the elite, but now that so many non-elite people use it, the elite people have dropped it and figured out that grammatically correct English is in fact more elite than 1337-Speak.

Correct.

[Lord_Destros]

Originally Posted by GrimReaperCdn An onomatopoeia happens to be an actual literary device and can be grammatically correct, if thats what you were referring to. On the other hand, I don't find emoticons as a part of chat-speak, do you?

Yes, I do.

Examples of what I consider to be common chat-speak emotions (remove the spaces in betweencharacters):
: ), : D, : (, : C, and X D

vB and most other forum software simply translate those into pictures.