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

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, September 15, 2000, 2:45
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! Transliteration: "I rule all you dudes because I am elite and I will hack your box (computer)". Translation: typical insult / macho declaration in l33t culture. OK, I made up that one. But here's an actual one I found on the net: How l337 would a l337 sp34k l337, if a l337 could sp34k l337 sp34k? Basically a combination of computer lingo, chatroom shorthands, colloquial slang, and lots of graphical imitations of ordinary letters using unlikely things like numbers and other esoteric ASCII characters. 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 T