Internet Slang: The Key to Decoding Neanderthal Speech? An essay by yours truly.

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Anthropologists have always wondered; what did the Neanderthals speak? Did they speak the predecessors of the root languages that have evolved into modern speech? Did they speak something entirely different? Since these sapiens have long since died and have left little to no evidence on how or what they spoke, no one knows what the language of the Neanderthals might have sounded like.

However, recent social behavior has uncovered something quite interesting. On the World Wide Web, also known as the Internet, a subculture of people has developed its own form of slang, known as "leet speak". (Proper leet speak requires the user to substitute English letters with numbers and other numbers and symbols.) Superficially, this slang language appears to be only poorly spelled phrases containing little to no correct grammar, and is treated as such by most Internet socialites. For example, let us examine this excerpt of dialog:

HOW IS BABBY FORMEd?

HOW GIRL GET PRAGNENT 


This set of questions was answered by the following:

They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys. becuse these babby cant frigth back? it was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids. they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest my pary are with the father who lost his children ; i am truley sorry for your lots

To the unwary examiner, this segment of Internet communication seems to be only a discussion on human reproduction. However, according to a fascinating and high quality documentary by Professor Shmor K. of Yale university, this conversation is actually human residual memories of Neanderthal language appearing in the most primitive form of human communication. Observe: Prof. Shmor's latest documentary, Babby
 
This just made my evening.  :lol:

One critique, though: if its ancient memories of our ancestors' speech, it should be homo erectus, not neanderthal.
 
Actually, leet is not a slang at all, it's a cipher.  It was an expressly elitist construct to keep the uninitiated out of the loop; this in the days when the people who best understood were computers were kids rather than the businessmen they were hired by.  It has BECOME slang because those kids grew up and became the hirers, the elitist function fell away, and it leaked over into common net usage.
 
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