Teh vnb4r4bl3 l33tn3zz of |3utt0nz

[nancylebov]

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[h3[km4t3!!!11! J00r k1n6 1z pwnd!!!!!


I wanted to use angle brackets, but lj insisted on trying to interpret them as html. I don't think the ['s look too bad. In any case, buttons are subject only to less-destructive parsing by humans, so please let me know if angle brackets would be better.

Again, any advice on l33t is welcome, and so are opinions about whether the slogans are funny.

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing l33t is going out of fashion, or there might have been time to incorporate artfully misspelled unicode. Amph'tchooGo for '<', Amph'tch4t3toowontoo, for '—'.

[mneme]

Actually, I'm not sure it -is- going out of style so much as being mainstreamed -- venues like MegaTokyo have made an entirley new set of people aware of the "art". I think the one of the primary (positive) aspects of 1337 is that it tends to be both clever and suscinct, so your examples lack some of the essential "character" of 1337n355. I could see someone using, say, gOblinkg2 or some such, though (the 00XX unicode characters are just ascii dressed up), or even just a "plain" unicode escape for the initiated&#8212;like that.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

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.