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Leetspeak or Leet is a written form of slang used primarily on the internet and in online video games. Leet uses a combination of alphanumerics to replace proper letters.
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Fast Facts
- Usage: Form of internet communication
- First known use: Electronic bulletin board systems in the 1980s
- "Leet" also written as 31337, 1337, L337, l33t
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Morphology
- -xor suffix: Synonymous with English -er and -r suffixes
- -age suffix: Suffix attached to verb stem forms a noun (Ex. Speakage, Pwnage)
- -ness suffix: Suffix attached to an adjective forms a noun
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The Mahalo Top 7
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Wall Street Journal: What Did U $@y? Online Language Finds Its Voice
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Wikipedia: Leet
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Urban Dictionary: Leetspeak
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The Lexicographer's Rules: Dreck to the asinines
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Gawker: Catfights: Teh New Talk-Ways Make Olders Mega-Sad, Super-Catty
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BBC h2g2: An Explanation of l33t Speak
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ComputerHope.com: Leetspeak Conversion Tool
computerhope.com
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Wall Street Journal: What Did U $@y? Online Language Finds Its Voice
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Leetspeak on Twitter Powered by Twitter
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@bireweich Geekvorschlag: Name MA3A aus dem Film Tron. Kleine leetspeak-andeutung auf ein von einer matriarchin gesteuertes Computersystem
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OH NOES they use leetspeak! RT @DiamonDie: How can anyone watch that crap? RT @boomtopper Numb3rs description of IRC - http://is.gd/4UsBp
@ZenMonkey | November 13, 2009 10:04 PM -
@Unmature cuz I only get 140 characters. Could have done leetspeak
@SpiderJuc | November 12, 2009 10:48 PM -
LOL: expression meaning "Laugh Out Loud" in Leetspeak. http://bit.ly/1o7Dmi
@leetword | November 12, 2009 08:34 PM
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Ask a Question about Leetspeak 140 characters
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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.
- Wall Street Journal: Shakespeare Would Like Leet, Scholar Says (August 23, 2007)
- WBZTV.com: Online Language Keeps Parents Guessing (April 12, 2007)
- WBZTV.com: Parent's Guide To Computer Slang (April 13, 2007)
- The Vocabula Review: The Leet Wars
- USA Today: ZOMG LOL FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!!!!!!!1 (August 23, 2007)
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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."
- Boing Boing: Deep and surprising "origins of leetspeek" Wikipedia article
- Boing Boing: IT Crowd DVD has subtitles in leet (December 15, 2006)
- NameWire: Will L33t, LoLcats Be the Next Company and Brand Naming Trends? (August 27, 2007)
- Gizmodo: The $5 Million Leetspeak iPhone Promotes Experimental Relations (June 30, 2007)
- Gizmodo: Omg: WSJ Goes Back to 1999 to Freak Out About 'l33t 5p34k' (August 23, 2007)
- Network Performance Links: WSJ gets "Pwned" (August 23, 2007)
- Wandering Rocks: Leetspeak? Pwning? (August 23, 2007)
- Zero Sum Mind: 1337 Katz0rz (May 3, 2007)
