Internet shorthand language. It came to be the hacker term for a collection of "emoticons," phonetic shortcuts, acronyms and abbreviations. When IRCchat and eventually AOL Instant Messenger came to dominate teen life (as well as cellphone text messaging in Europe and Asia), l33tspeak gradually became (and is becoming) a staple of teen vernacular. L33Tspeak (abreviation leet) comes from "l33t hax0r," a common term from the early days of the phenomenon when this practice was mostly employed by hackers on slow, multi-user Unix systems -- and each keystroke was precious. A "l33t hax0r" is an "elite hacker."
"R U wurEd dat d eng lngwij wil bcum cor^ted unrEdabl?" translated becomes "Are you worried that the english language will become corrupted and unreadable?"
Примеры использования:
The PseudoDictionary seldom accepts leetspeak entries … partly because such entries are unreadable and unintelligible to our geezer editors. Nota bene: All of our editors are geezers. If not now, later.
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