Rapaire...

I too detest such things like "50cc3r rul3z" - which were supposed to be witticisms uttered by "Hackers"... but at least this is not as bad as things like "cLeVeRmE!"

While I won't repeat here the difference between "Hackers" & "Crackers", the "gem" above really only belongs to "Script Kiddies", those not doing anything creative, but just blindly following formulae. They can still cause much damage...

Interestingly the "double negative" expression thing much decried by Academics !!! (I AM aware of the thread I'm posting in!) has been collected and documented in Folklore (or do I mean Libguistics?) as a genuine different "class of speech" (can't think of the correct term right now) in which the speakers clearly know that they are simply meaning extra emphasis rather than ignorantly expressing a double negative. I seem to remember that some languages other than English do this sort of "Academically pronounced bad" thing anyway (was it german? can't remember!) Anyone telling such a speaker that they mean the opposite is obviously ignorant and stupid .. and well they may be in that particular culture.

Incidentally, while cliches may be frowned on, have you ever thought that Shakespeare is full of cliches? Of course, they weren't cliches at the time he created them.... :-)

Robin
(who now stands revealed as part of the secret plot to surreptiously steal this thread away from name callers and others with such limited debating skills!)
and is getting tired and a little silly...