Grek can’t read, nor can the majority of the Warcraft player base.

No, it’s not just the Orcs anymore. Everywhere you go in Azeroth you are forced to interact with the unwashed masses. Yes, I’m talking about the l33tspeakers, LOLcatters, and dimwits who honestly just don’t know any better. These are our gaming peers. A growing player-base of morons.

So just what is it about Warcraft that attracts this class of clientele? Sure, a good amount of them are just kids, but shockingly enough, a lot of them are adults as well. Is Warcraft really an accurate sampling of American society, or is the gene (jean in WoWtalk) pool tainted? Are the scales tipped with some sort of unknown variable, be it gamers or MMO players in general?

No matter the reason, the sad fact remains there is a problem. Even worse than the mentally challenged citizen who doesn’t know the difference between YOUR and YOU’RE, or THERE and THEIR, is the one who does and decides to go with the wrong one because they think it’s cool. That’s right, somewhere along the way between Chillwind Camp and Undercity talking like a Walmart greeter became hip to these people. However it’s not merely just the incorrect form of a word plastered in trade chat, it has grown into a whole new way of speaking which includes intentional misspellings and the order of words being swapped around in a clusterf*ck of ignorance that could rival even the likes of Glenn Beck.

I’m speaking, of course, of the LOLcatters. More, is now moar. Has is now haz. i r sry but alls ur lootoorz r belong to meh kitteh. Seriously? I’m willing to bet you have a weight problem, 7 cats, and your rent is three months late .. score settled, you can have my loot. It boggles my mind that people over the age of 12 are talking like this and they actually feel good about it.

Lastly, l33tspeak. You know, pwning nubs. Nerd rage at it’s finest, you can often find these people ganking noobs when they aren’t swapping numbers in for letters, or surrounding their usernames with double Xs.  It’s nothing new to techies or gamers, but still annoying enough to rank on our scale.

So what have we learned here today? An abbreviation or mispunctuation is perfectly acceptable when casually writing .. but typing like a kindergartner who spent too much time huffing glue is not.