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266:, like smiley faces, to be leet, while others maintain that leet consists of only symbolic word encryption. More obscure forms of leet, involving the use of symbol combinations and almost no letters or numbers, continue to be used for its original purpose of encrypted communication. It is also sometimes used as a scripting language. Variants of leet have been used to evade censorship for many years; for instance "@$ $ " (ass) and "$ #!+" (shit) are frequently seen to make a word appear censored to the untrained eye but obvious to a person familiar with leet. This enables coders and programmers especially to circumvent filters and speak about topics that would usually get banned. "Hacker" would end up as "H4x0r", for example. 1681: 3623: 2095: 334:. One prominent example is using the term "unalive" as opposed to the verb "kill" or even "suicide". Other examples include using "restarted" or "regarded" instead of "retarded" and "seggs" in place of "sex". These phrases are easily understandable to humans, providing either the same general meaning, pronunciation, or shape of the original word. It is furthermore often employed as a more contemporary alternative to leet. The approach has gained more popularity in 2023 and 2024 due to the 1940: 270: 3927: 2109: 3939: 3951: 32: 1620: 1562:. An alternative form of "B&" is "B7", as the ampersand is with the "7" key on the standard US keyboard. It is often seen in the abbreviation "IBB7" (in before banned), which indicates that the poster believes that a previous poster will soon be banned from the site, channel, or board on which they are posting. 1721:
New words (or corruptions thereof) may arise from a need to make one's username unique. As any given Internet service reaches more people, the number of names available to a given user is drastically reduced. While many users may wish to have the username "CatLover," for example, in many cases it is
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Another use for leet orthographic substitutions is the creation of paraphrased passwords. Limitations imposed by websites on password length (usually no more than 36) and the characters permitted (e.g. alphanumeric and symbols) require less extensive forms when used in this application.
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nouns, turning verbs into nouns (and back again) as forms of emphasis, e.g. "Austin rocks" is weaker than "Austin roxxorz" (note spelling), which is weaker than "Au5t1N is t3h r0xx0rz" (note grammar), which is weaker than something like "0MFG D00D /\Ü571N 15 T3H l_l83Я 1337 Я0XX0ЯZ"
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only possible for one user to have the moniker. As such, degradations of the name may evolve, such as "C@7L0vr." As the leet cipher is highly dynamic, there is a wider possibility for multiple users to share the "same" name, through combinations of spelling and transliterations.
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decimal, making it more of a puzzle to interpret. An increasingly common characteristic of leet is the changing of grammatical usage so as to be deliberately incorrect. The widespread popularity of deliberate misspelling is similar to the cult following of the
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and history. Leet is not solely based upon one language or character set. Greek, Russian, and other languages have leet forms, and leet in one language may use characters from another where they are available. As such, while it may be referred to as a
129: 1608:-elite rocks-er!). In essence, all of these mean "Austin rocks," not necessarily the other options. Added words and misspellings add to the speaker's enjoyment. Leet, like hacker slang, employs analogy in construction of new words. For example, if 1466:. These nouns are often used with a form of "to be" rather than "to have," e.g., "that was pwnage" rather than "he has pwnage". Either is a more emphatic way of expressing the simpler "he pwns," but the former implies that the person is 401: 1964:(generally pronounced "poned" ) both refer to the domination of a player in a video game or argument (rather than just a win), or the successful hacking of a website or computer. It is a slang term derived from the verb 1591:, leet enjoys a looser grammar than standard English. The loose grammar, just like loose spelling, encodes some level of emphasis, ironic or otherwise. A reader must rely more on intuitive 1985:
The term was created accidentally by the misspelling of "own" due to the keyboard proximity of the "O" and "P" keys. It implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the
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of previous centuries, (e.g. "pwned" becomes "pwn'd"). Sometimes, the apostrophe is removed as well (e.g. "pwned" becomes "pwnd"). The word ending may also be substituted by
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hacker collective has been credited with the original coining of the term, in their text-files of that era. One theory is that it was developed to defeat
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of many Internet and video games. Use of the term in such a manner announces a high level of skill, though such an announcement may be seen as baseless
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that have spilled over into some culture. Signs that show the numbers "1337" are popular motifs for pictures and are shared widely across the Internet.
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Leet has its own colloquialisms, many of which originated as jokes based on common typing errors, habits of new computer users, or knowledge of
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would be easily understood to be the past tense conjugation of "to win," even if the reader had not seen that particular word before.
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of leet to determine the meaning of a sentence rather than the actual sentence structure. In particular, speakers of leet are fond of
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would work around a nickname being already taken (and maybe abandoned as well) by replacing a letter with a similar-looking digit.
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is also sometimes spelled backwards (n0rp) to further obscure the meaning to potentially uninformed readers. It can also refer to
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to any adjective. This is entirely the same as the English form, except it is used much more often in Leet. Nouns such as
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make sense of is valid; a valid reader should themselves try to make sense, if deserving of the underlying message.
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The choice of symbol is not fixed: anything the reader can make sense of is valid in leet-speak. Sometimes,
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is a modified version of "sucks" (the phrase "to suck"), and the meaning is the same as the English slang.
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shares conceptual similarities with leet, albeit with its primary purpose to circumvent algorithmic
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depicting pornographic images, or to photos of the internals of consumer and industrial hardware.
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to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated (e.g., "You just got pwned!"). In 2015
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Spelling given names in Leet in a way the output would reference to something is also possible.
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from associating commercial sites with pornography, which might result in unwelcome traffic.
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culture and is currently used in multi-user environments such as multiplayer video games and
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if used in the wrong context. Its negative definition essentially makes it the opposite of
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or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words on the basis of a system of
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or to the superiority of its subject (e.g., "He is a very good player. He is pwnage.").
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Upside-down "1337" (with a bar under "1") also reads as "LEET" (example on the photo).
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Say, girl name "Marisa" can be spelled as /\/\AR15/\ - with a reference to the
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Text rendered in leet is often characterized by distinctive, recurring forms.
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refers to the hacking of telephone systems and other non-Internet equipment.
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of the initial vowel of "elite". It may also be pronounced as two syllables,
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The same sticker on one's laptop demonstrates upside-down "1337" as "LEET"
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for message boards to discourage the discussion of forbidden topics, like
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and its "lolspeak", a similar phenomenon in 21st century English language
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Naone, Erica (November 2008). "The Flaw at the Heart of the Internet".
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originated as a typographical error of "the", and is sometimes spelled
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Many words originally derived from leet have now become part of modern
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is the past tense of the verb "to hack" (hack → haxor → haxored), then
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Alternatively, sometimes 3 or 6 letters can be leet-ified into a valid
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with the topic's contentious nature on the Internet, especially on
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An "eleet hacker" (31337 H4XØR) laptop sticker, along with a "Free
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SCROLL / NETWORK / HACK: A Poetics of ASCII Literature (1983-1989)
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Derivation of a noun from an adjective stem is done by attaching
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Derivation of a noun from a verb stem is possible by attaching
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case, involving interpreting the word's letters as digits
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Sometimes, a word can be typed in leet with digits only:
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The meaning of this suffix is parallel with the English
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to the base form of any verb. Attested derivations are
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One of the hallmarks of leet is its unique approach to
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Klug, Daniel; Steen, Ella; Yurechko, Kathryn (2022).
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deciphers as "kewl" (which is derived from "cool").
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