Had to laugh when I saw my friend Pat take Kim Cameron to task for a language infraction on 4/22/05 where Kim said "dialog with them", instead of "talk with them". I was instant messaging with Jeff Hodges yesterday and commenting on how hip he was with his greeting of "D00d!". We both have a couple teenagers, so he pointed me to A parent's primer to computer slang. If you don't think leetspeak is going to end up in college term papers, whitepapers and press releases someday, you have no idea how much time these kids spend IMing. Save your verbiage venom, Pat, you're going to need it.

Sidebar: I came home one night and saw my oldest daughter's best friend in the kitchen. I knew she was spending the night and asked what she was doing on the laptop. "I'm IMing". I asked where my daughter was. "She's down in the basement on the computer". Oh. What is she doing? "We're talking".