| ENGLISH DEFINITION
Explanation:
Leet (aka "leet speak", l33t, 1337, etc.) is a written-only dialect of the English language, used on the Internet. Its users are often those who participate in online gaming, crackers, and avid IRC users. It differentiates from its mother tongue, as 'normal' letters are replaced by numbers, bi-case letters, and special characters. Correct capitalization and punctuation are ignored by its users.
Leet (aka "leet speak", l33t, 1337, etc.) is a written-only dialect of the English language, used on the Internet. Its users are often those who participate in online gaming, crackers, and avid IRC users. It differentiates from its mother tongue, as 'normal' letters are replaced by numbers, bi-case letters, and special characters. Correct capitalization and punctuation are ignored by its users.
The term "leet" comes from the term "elite". The leet dialect comes from the days of BBSs, where it was probably developed as a way of defeating obscenity-censoring filters. Some boards had an "elite" section which only trusted members were allowed access to, where warez trading and other such shady activities took place.
True hackers frown on the use of leet, and only use it in a sarcastic way. They are usually able to understand it however, and several leet terms have made there way into the hacker lexicon - see the Jargon File for details.
In keeping with the filter-defeating origin of leet, there is no standard "spelling" or character substitution in leet. Because of this, reading leet is easier than writing it.
In addition to character substitution, there are several words that are unique to leet, or at least have a differing semi-standard spelling. Here are some examples (for readability, no character substitution):
"haxor" for "hacker" (sometime used as if it is pronounced the way it is "spelled", for example "haxor my boxors (boxers)!"
"joo" for "you"
"dood" for "dude"
"noob" for "newb"
"pron" for "porn" or "pornography" - this is standard hacker dialect as well.
Some "standard" character substitutions
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Reference: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Leet
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