"Bill Baxter" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: >> "Yigal Chripun" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> Walter Bright wrote: >>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>>>> "superdan" <[email protected]> wrote in message >>>>> news:[email protected]... >>>>>> if u dun shitfuck there u r dead meat. pardon me french. >>>>>> don & walt u r 2 cool fer school. thanks doods. tho wut's with tat >>>>>> apple thing. >>>>> >>>>> I don't usually mind profanity, so for me the big problem is more >>>>> often the high overhead involved in translating things like this into >>>>> real words and sentences. ;-) >>>> >>>> One interesting aspect of writing posts like that is you can use it to >>>> defeat snooping programs that look for certain keywords and phrases. It >>>> also makes it far more difficult for non-native language speakers to >>>> understand it, if that is one's intention. >>> >>> Being a non-native English speaker, I *HATE* that kind of writing since >>> it's very hard for me to understand it >> >> I'm a native English speaker, and even *I* find it very difficult to read >> that kind of writing. It's bad enough that I usually just don't even >> bother >> to try to read it and just move on to the next post/web-page/etc. There's >> plenty of things out there written with *good* language that it's just >> not >> worthwhile to waste time on the poorly-written stuff. Therefore, I see >> bad >> language like that as an effective way to make people not even listen to >> you. > > That reminds me of this comic Snuffy Smith that was in the funny pages > of the newspapers where I grew up. When I was in grade school I liked > to read the comics, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what > the heck they were saying in Snuffy Smith. It's all written like > "Gee, G'paw, I shurely'd be likin' ter gwan git sum, but I rekin it > ain't all done yit." But it's been around for a long time. So I > guess some people like to read obfuscated English. Then of course > there's James Joyce and William Faulkner who made whole literary > movements out of writing stuff that was impossible to read. :-) > > [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Google_and_Snuffy_Smith
The newer comics Non-Sequitor (the old guy telling stories in the bar) and Pearls Before Swine (the crocs) do that a lot too. But they're so funny I find it worth the effort. It gives certain characters a particular accent that kind of emulates good comedic voice-acting and really makes the whole thing just that much funnier.
