Does anyone speak leet

Nope, saying "LOL" isn't very leet. Meaning "laughing out loud," it was quickly and almost universally adopted online.

As the first and last letters indicate, it's "hacker. Both the numeral 6 and the numeral 5 are close to the shape of a G. But the 6 is a little closer. The "z" replaces the more common "s. Literally, it's "food. It's largely been replaced by "All your base are belong to us. This is a simple rendering of the exclamation "Woot! The bridge here is the word "teh" for "the," based on a frequent typo. While "teh" has been adopted by meme-makers, leetspeakers went a little further, making it "t3h.

This creates the leet word "pwn. However, it can be used as a singular. Yup, it's basically what it looks like. Also can be abbreviated as "BC.

Don't be confused by the similarity to "pwn" for "own" -- it's porn, only slightly altered. Helpful advice of the day: On the Deep Web, child pornography links are often marked with the simple letters "CP," so if you see this, don't click any further.

For a long time, leet was also used in gaming. Words like " pwn derived from own That's "how to speak leet" if you're still working on it. The simplest way is to replace letters with numbers that resemble the missing letters.

Since there are no real rules to the language, you can kind of make it up as you go along. But is there a point? It depends who you're speaking to. In some gaming circles, it may still be appropriate as necessary. It can definitely create a challenge for content moderators who use keywords during user-generated content moderation to identify banned material, for example. Many parents would testify that it also makes things difficult for them as they struggle to figure out what their teens are talking about when they use acronyms like AMOSC add me on Snapchat and LMIRL let's meet in real life.

However, this can actually make your passwords more predictable—especially when you consider that leet had its origins in the hacker world. I am totally blasted this weekend. I feel like several people have been beating on me with long cardboard tubes and large rocks. It's Saturday morning, and I am so very glad that I don't have a webcam anymore. The visage in the mirror is really scary.

Even if my webcam was still up, I suppose I could turn it off. That's the nice thing about the net. As much your privacy is gaffed on the net, you still have some control over your 'presence' - at least if youhave a little creativity.

At a base level, one of the first things you get control is the selection of your nickname, or 'nick'. It's amazing how much time and effort we spend on nicks.

Protecting it, nurturing it - people get reallypissed if they loose a nick on IRC. In this computerized world, a nick is almost as important if not more than your real name.

With some people it's obvious where the nick came from - the name of a favorite character, a play on your real name, a revolting description of some bodily function, or just simply something that sounds fuming cool. But if nothing else, it says something about yourself. It's a way of adding some personal representation to yourself in what is still a pretty much text-based world.

Start scrolling By Roald Craenen. Leet Speak Cheat Sheet Cheat your way from n00b to l33t 1f y0u c4n r34d 7h15 y0u r34lly n33d 70 4 l1f3! Leet speak alphabet The leet speak alphabet in its simplest form substitutes vowels, but it can be pretty complex when substituting consonants as well.

Numbers and leet speak It's not only letters that are substituted with numbers, numbers can be substituted by letters too. Suffixes In addition to substituting letters and numbers, more advanced leet speak uses various suffixes.

Leet speak vocabulary Of course any word or sentence can be transformed into leet speak, but there are some words unique to it. Bosses usually occur at the end of games, or at the end of crucial chapters of a game bot, NPC, monster, mobs Non-playable character, or a robot, is a character controlled by the computer Play bug, glitch An error in computer code that causes unwanted behavior bunny hop, bunny hopping Rapidly jumping up and down and moving all over the place so you're a more difficult target to kill camper A gamer that stays in the same spot, waiting for other players to walk by and then shooting them cheater Someone who doesn't play fair.

Often times unskilled players call skilled players l33ts cheaters, because they can't stand how good they really are. What's up! Used to describe jawdropping events that weren't anticipated Play patch A software update for a game that fixes bugs and glitches PC A playable character that is controlled by a real human being ph33r, ph34r Fear, as in "Fear me!

An expression of great joy and happiness Play noobcannon, n00bc4nn0n A weapon that inflicts a lot of damage, but doesn't require much skill to use gibs, gibbed Wet bodily fragments, to gib someone is to kill someone and then the corpse explodes lag Slow internet connectivity, reducing response times and creating sluggish gameplay Play clan A group of gamers that teamed up and fight together kewl Cool Play sploitz Exploits, vulnerabilities in computer software abused by hackers spray, spraying Firing lots of bullets in the hope of killing someone, instead of aiming accurately ph4t, phat, ph Awesome or cool Play trolling Making fun of someone wallhack Cheat software that enables players to see and shoot through walls rank h00r, stat h00r Someone who cares too much his stats in a way that it affects his normal game play.

Abbreviations Leet speak has come a long way since the '80s and has evolved a bit over time. L33t m4tr1x As you've read above, leet speak is mostly substituting letters to a certain degree. Basic Leet Basic Leet is nothing more than substituting every vowel for a number. Intermediate Leet If you've read any of the above carefully, you've probably already surpassed the Basic Leet level.

Advanced Leet Advanced Leet is where things get really exciting. Leet Speak Translator To put any of the above in perspective, you can use the Leet Speak Translator below to turn any text you'd like into Leet. A word of caution When you start off learning leet speak, it quickly feels like the only way to communicate with fellow gamers.

The word "hacker" could be transformend into h4ck3r, but by using this suffix, it becomes h4x0r The o is often replaced by a 0. A piece of software that automatically aims and locks on targets or other players to kill them more easily.

The "bad guy" that has to be beaten to win the game. Bosses usually occur at the end of games, or at the end of crucial chapters of a game. Rapidly jumping up and down and moving all over the place so you're a more difficult target to kill.