Re: [!nt] \n2+0\ Re: Biography and its discontents

In a message dated 2000:09:14 7:41:00 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:

>On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:13:33PM -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
>> this guy reminds me very specifically of that person who used to hang
>out
>> here a while ago....used the same kinds of mutations:
>[snip]
>
>Hmm, ever poked around in so-called "l33t" (mutation of "elite") culture?
>Basically the kinda stuff computer-addicted teenagers do... e.g.:
>
>i r00l3z 4ll j00 d00dz cuz 1 4m 31337 & I w1ll h4X0r ur 80x!
>
><SNiP>
>How l337 would a l337 sp34k l337, if a l337 could sp34k l337 sp34k?
>
><SNiP> Typical
>substitutions include 4 <-- A, 3 <-- E, 7 <-- T, 1 <-- I, 1 <-- L, 0 <--
>O, 5 <-- S, 8 <-- B. Sometimes you also see things like |\/| for M, etc..
>
>Sometimes I wonder if this is qualified as conlanging (or at least
>pidgin-ing)... :-P
    ConSlangin'... definitely not pidgin (in the strict LINGUISTIC sense of
the terminology). It is interesting tho' in that this sorta of
lingua-mangling is the cyberspace equivalent to both code-slang and
graffitti.

    czHANg