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English term or phrase:	1337 5p34k
French translation:	L@n9aGe l33t
Entered by:	Florence B

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12:53pm May 8, 2005

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English term or phrase: "Leet" or L33t

L33t (aka “leet”): A special language developed on the Internet by people who chat a lot or play games.

That is all I have.
Anybody knows the french word for leet?
Thank you

Béatrice Sylvie Lajoie

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Olivier MANESSE: 1:59pm May 8, 2005: Un complément d'info en français : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337_5p34k -
Béatrice Sylvie Lajoie (asker): 3:09pm May 8, 2005: Merci pour la définition Hamania, mais le terme en français? C'est bien "L@n9aGe l33t"? That is the question... :-))

L@n9aGe l33t

Explanation:
Je suis tombée sur le même problème pas plus tard qu'hier et j'en suis là de mes conclusions - d'ailleurs si quelqu'un d'autre a une meilleure idée ça m'intéresse aussi :-)

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http://www.dicodunet.com/definitions/internet/leet.htm

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Florence B
France

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Merci beaucoup.
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DEFINITION

Hania & Amane Hammoud

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L@n9aGe l33t

Florence B

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L33t 5p34K L@n9aGe l33t

Explanation:
Je suis tombée sur le même problème pas plus tard qu'hier et j'en suis là de mes conclusions - d'ailleurs si quelqu'un d'autre a une meilleure idée ça m'intéresse aussi :-)

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Note added at 7 mins (2005-05-08 13:00:44 GMT)
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http://www.dicodunet.com/definitions/internet/leet.htm

Florence B
France
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 32

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Merci beaucoup.

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

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

Hania & Amane Hammoud
Lebanon
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

French

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English: "Leet" or L33t

French translation: L@n9aGe l33t