smoke Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 Every once in a while "1337" speak can be funny. Like when someone does a parody of "h4x0r's", but I tend to avoid it in day to day talk. I think it makes you look kinda silly and much like a kiddy if you use it all the time. What I find a little annoying is when people intentionally mispell words trying to convey an accent over the net. Like someone saying "whiff" instead of with. What are you having a whiff of? :p Or then they change letters to sound cute like replacing all s's at the end of words with z's. None of it is shortcuts or 1337 speak, it's just trying to be cute. But I myself would rather type normal. "I make mah websitez whiff lotsa kewl thingz" :wacko: I have a few friends (or should I say.. friendz) who talk like that. But I don't get in their face about it cause I know they would get defensive about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 I find it stupid when people deliberately speak in l337 but i can appreciate the humor of it. In small doses of course. Like my title as an example. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason the Eighty Eighth Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 (edited) \/\/0u1D j00 1ik3 1+ 1i= 1 5p3@k 1337? n0, 1+ w0ulD 83 \/3ry @nn0y1n9. Translated: Would you like it if i speak leet? no, it would be very annoying. this is one of those nerdy things that can really annoy you. like if a group of 3 nerds come up to you and say "your intelligence is equal to ours, you unsuperiour fool", and laugh together, you feel like beating the crap out of them, not becuase they called you that, becuase they are plain annoying. i hate it when people Frag you in Counter-Strike and their team says "1 0\/\/N j00". really annoying and confusing. and when people say "u" or "2", it is more casual. would you like it if we be very formal from now? if so, i could go around the Forums and ask people to edit their posts because there are grammatical errors everywhere. Edited February 7, 2003 by Jason the Eighty Eighth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XavierHyde Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 Yep, Keldyn's right - in small doses at the right places 1337-speak is a great form of hacker humor. Overuse indicates that the writer is a script kiddie or someone else (engaged in illegal activity) who's seriously thinks 1337-speak makes him look all cool and experienced. :x Then there's of course other things that aren't neccesarily hard to read but is still 'leet-speak', like the often-quoted phrase "u have been owned'. That's a typical cracker-associated phrase (and sometimes jokingly used in real hacker circuits when reffering to people buying software from big companies like Micro$oft: 'Bill Gate$ 0wNs Ur @$$'). So to sum up my experiences: if someone speaks 'leet' too much, they're either just uninformed, or engaged in illegal hacker subcultures. 'Light' use of 'leet' might indicate a real hacker expressing friendly irony. So basically, you have to know the person behind the keyboard to be able to tell those uses apart. As for the Google 'hacker speak' [sic] page, it's easily found under 'Language Tools'. It seems that the 'funny' language variants don't always work properly when linking directly so if you get an error, just go to google.com and select 'Language Tools'. They have a lot of funny languages there, like the all-time classic 'Bork bork bork' and of course Klingon as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 "leet" speak is rather stupid, IMHO. However, acronyms/abbreviations (within reason) are fine for day to day use. Here's a couple examples... Acceptable: Jim: Hey, what's the addy to google?Bob: www.google.com Jim: thx Bob: yw Unacceptable (to me): Bill: k d00d, wtfigo?Ted: nmhu? Bill: nawt, I seen Jill today, her skirt torn in the store! Ted: ROFLMMFAOAHFS Just a wee bit hard to follow the convo in that second example (poor Jill). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deimos Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 ph34r t3h l33tn355. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocker Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 i |)0|\|'T |\/|1|\|d L3Et, 8U+ I+ t@keS T1|\/|3 fOR ppL +0 r34D :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XavierHyde Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Now, does this hurt? :rofl: http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2003/ft030316.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastGodSupreme Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 jeffk speak is better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerichohol Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 Now, does this hurt? :rofl:http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ft/2003/ft030316.gif thats brilliant :devil: :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTallack Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 There was once a time when I thought leetspeak was cool. I was also 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizkit Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 i think that it makes people that dont know how to read it think that the place it stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 And this thread keeps getting redug..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdiaz2day Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 I LOVE It |)00|)!!! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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