I don't know how much you care about wikipedia, but it sounds as though the socilogical part of the article could use some updating.
I was thinking of obsfuscated 1337 like "/\/\?|<£'§ 1££+ §|<?11§ þ|/\||\| _|??" (Mike's leet skills own you) from the wikipedia article. Perhaps that's a sort of perverse or decadent leet rather than a natural development for most of the language.
My impression of leet is some of it's clever, but it gets pulled both towards succinctness (though I suspect most of its abbreviations are borrowed from text messaging) and towards expansion--the latter is partly playing with symbols and partly emotional emphasis.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zvi and
no subject
Date: 2005-05-24 01:31 am (UTC)I was thinking of obsfuscated 1337 like "/\/\?|<£'§ 1££+ §|<?11§ þ|/\||\| _|??" (Mike's leet skills own you) from the wikipedia article. Perhaps that's a sort of perverse or decadent leet rather than a natural development for most of the language.
My impression of leet is some of it's clever, but it gets pulled both towards succinctness (though I suspect most of its abbreviations are borrowed from text messaging) and towards expansion--the latter is partly playing with symbols and partly emotional emphasis.