a parents' guide to leetspeak
Feb. 18th, 2005 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solipsistnationCourtesy of Microsoft, no less.
A parent's primer to computer slang: Understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them
Important tips:
• Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Many leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar.
• Mistakes are often uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (or typos) such as "teh" instead of "the" are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling.
Leet words possibly indicating illegal activity:
• "warez" or "w4r3z": Illegally copied software available for download.
A parent's primer to computer slang: Understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them
Important tips:
• Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Many leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar.
• Mistakes are often uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (or typos) such as "teh" instead of "the" are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling.
Leet words possibly indicating illegal activity:
• "warez" or "w4r3z": Illegally copied software available for download.
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Date: 2005-02-18 06:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-18 06:51 pm (UTC)HTH, HAND
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Date: 2005-02-18 06:53 pm (UTC)No
Date: 2005-02-18 08:02 pm (UTC)AE