The Mahalo Top 7

  1. Wikipedia: Leet
  2. Wall Street Journal: What Did U $@y? Online Language Finds Its Voice (August 23, 2007)  WARNING: Subscription required
  3. The Lexicographer's Rules: Dreck to the asinines (August 24, 2007)
  4. Gawker: Catfights: Teh New Talk-Ways Make Olders Mega-Sad, Super-Catty (August 23, 2007)
  5. BBC h2g2: An Explanation of l33t Speak
  6. Urban Dictionary: Leetspeak
  7. ComputerHope.com: Leetspeak Conversion Tool

Leetspeak News and Articles

  • The Wall Street Journal asked Gail Kern Paster, the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, to weigh in on leetspeak. Apparently, Shakespeare would have appreciated leet's playful approach to language. Pastner's remarks are translated into leet for the leet literate.

Leetspeak Academic Papers

Leetspeak Definitions

Leetspeak Blogs

  • The Wall Street Journal's August 2007 article on Leetspeak caused an uproar in the blogosphere which deemed the piece lazy, behind the times and downright conservative. Scholar Robert Hartwell Fiske is quoted in the article as saying, "There used to be a time when people cared about how they spoke and wrote."

Leetspeak Fun Stuff

Leetspeak Converters

Leetspeak Videos

  • The local television news outlet's report on leetspeak included below depicts leet as a "dangerous dialect" used by children and criminals to communicate covertly without parental intervention.

Leetspeak Merchandise

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