Charlie and Parson- Confirmation in EW: 147?

[Kaed]

Ho ho, that's where you're wrong! I don't care about similar phrases, I'm talking about h4x.

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- Sizemore understands simple abbreviations and emoticons, but does not understand "kk thxbai." As "kk thxbai" comes from FPS chat and memes, it makes good sense that Erfworlders would not understand them.
- Nobody else in the world has Eyebooks, but Charlie can "hack" into Parson's. Even assuming this is Arkendish Thinkamancy (and not that "Charlie" still has his Eyebook from the past), Charlie should not have sufficient experience with them to have come up with meme-based communication.
- There is no Erfworld analog for "hacking." There are no computers, nor more than a single set of computer-like devices. Even if there were, it seems likely they would be Thinkamancy based - that is to say, no keyboards.
- Charlie instantly understood "omg h4x" despite the fact that (1) "hacking" has no Erfworld analogy and (2) number-letter substitution would never have occurred to a people without keyboards.

... Or maybe, you know, Charlie just knew that he wasn't supposed to be in another forces SECURE METHOD OF COMMUNICATION, and drew his conclusions as to the outbursts meaning from the context there.

Because obviously it's more likely that Charlie is really Parson, thus understands the meaning of netspeak, instead of just being a very smart mercenary overlord who hates to lose in any way, including failing to understand the meaning of something.

"Indeed!" Is a pretty generic response, and he even quickly changes the subject to ask what Parson is doing.