Maybe I should have written it ||oob doo|/| to be more balanced and feng shui… well if I was into that stuff. Anyway, anybody noticed how many newbies are spelling it noob, these days?
Bloomfield spelled it “noob” when he called me one.
It’s that noofangled phonetics. Noob is pronouncified the same as newbie (noo b).
If this were 2050 and we were lost in space, it would be Nu-B, although of course the smartspeak teenagers would probably slangify that to Nube.
I recognized this development in the online gaming scene as well. In 2001, one was a newbie. In 2002, one was a newb. In 2003, one was a noob. In 2004, one was a n00b or b00n. In 2005, one was a nap (in Germany, pronouced like ‘nub’).
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This is an odd place for discussion about linguistics, but I’ll reply anyway. Internet users (especially in emails and chat forums) have created their own language/dialect with new words, spellings, and grammatical formations. I remember the first time I read the word “peeps” in an email (other examples include “N -E-ways” for anyways sometimes shortened to “ne-ways”, “lol”, “noob”, etc.) What is really interesting is that many of these internet forms are being incorporated into regular speech. Anyway, I just think it’s neat.
Cheers.
Someone said something funny to me the other day, and I caught myself just before replying, “LOL.” 
Most of these are spawned when an amusing misspelling catches on.
Most of these misspellings are the result of laziness, or typos resulting
from speedy typing.
For example:
“I own you” (trash-talk) becomes “You got owned” (video game trash-
talk), which is misspelled “You got pwned”, which is shortened to
“pwned!”
Also, my favorite:
That is teh suxxor!
I am just waiting for E.B.White’s book on proper internet style so that I can write an intelligent dissertation on one of the chat forums that commands respect due to my elite knowledge of the internet lexicon.
And I am still trying to figure out what the heck “BTW” means!
By The Way. 
Thank you for laying waste to a small section of my vast ignorance . . .
Now, how about IMHO - I’M a Hoover Octipus? It May Happen Once? I Might Have Ovaries?
Try here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang
Didn’t know this one
GIRL
“guy in real life”
Edit to add overlap slang.
I’m definitely bookmarking that puppy! Thanks!
This amuses me.
Sounds like a computer-driven version of Newspeak to me:
(excerpt from “1984”)
This is Syme, a worker in the Ministry of Truth, talking: “…We’re getting Newspeak into its final shape - the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. We’re destroying words - scores of them, hundreds of them everyday. We’re cutting language down to the bone. It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Take “good”, for instance. If you have a word like “good”, what need is there for a word like “bad”? “Ungood” will do just as well…
…Every year, fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?..”
Quite the opposite, actually, leetspeak rewards freedom of spelling,
such that there are more forms of a word, not fewer. I think the
original reason was to fool nanny filters (see pr0n).
When our older children were in grammer school we questioned their teachers as to why they were not correcting the spelling in the assignments that were done. The basic answer we got was:
It is more important for them to express themselves. We do not want to restrict that expression by putting negative comments on their papers.
To this day they have problems with spelling and yes, expressing themselves in writing. A real success that was, eh?
So I see this “newspeak” or whatever it is called as an extention of this mentality picked up in school. That and laziness.
What you’re talking about is bad spelling, i.e., not remembering the
correct places to put the letters.
Leetspeak is not the same. It has rules and they must be followed to
be understood. Perhaps moreso. It’s not the same as the Instant
Messaging laziness that can also be seen in the wild. The point of
Leetspeak is to be “underground” and “subversive” and to pretend
the government is having a hard time reading your communications.
Incidentally, I have a friend whose teacher was a stickler for
spelling, and it made him hate creative writing for decades. He
refused to practice writing, and therefore spelling. So he ended up
having problems spelling and expressing himself in writing. So, it
may not just be the teaching method. Though, I agree that we
should still teach spelling, in the hopes that it’ll stick to someone.
I think most of my spelling practice has been through reading,
because it has definately improved over the years.
Man, that’s really appalling, though.
European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
be
the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in
plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will
make
the sivil servants jump with joy.
The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like
fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is
disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with
“z” and “w” with “v”.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords containing
“ou”
and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
forst plas.
I op zis mad you smil,
vegardz
David
Mit Deutsch hat das jetzt aber nicht wirklich was zu tun, sieht eher wie misslungene Hackersprache aus. 
There are also texts in the opposite way, turning german to euro-german which is to look like english, but doesn’t, you know.
Nevertheless, funny text.