Netspeak Translator

I hate netspeak. You know, that internet phenomenon where people TYPA LIEK THES N 4GET EVERY GRMMAR N SP3LNG RULA IN EXISTANCE. It’s irritating to read, takes more effort to type than “regular” speak, and generally makes the user look dumber than a dead gnat. Yet, as much as netspeak annoys me, it kind of holds this strange mystifying element for me. Kids insist on using it – but why? Where do you even learn to speak netspeak? I’ve never been a “netspeaker,” I used proper spelling and grammar (took me a while to use proper capitalization though, I’ll admit!) and never became fluent in netspeak.

Maybe the AOLer Translator is what kids use to learn netspeak. It’s a generator that “translates” the regular text you input and outputs the translated netspeak version. It’s pretty cool and accurate (although netspeak is a foreign language to me!). The only thing missing is a netspeak to regular speak translator – that would be much more useful than regular speak to netspeak!

I input the first two paragraphs of this entry in the translator, and this is what it generated:

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