Leet

Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet. It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words on the basis of a system of suffixes and alternative meanings. There are many dialects or linguistic varieties in different online communities.

For other uses, see Leet (disambiguation).

The term "leet" is derived from the word elite, used as an adjective to describe skill or accomplishment, especially in the fields of online gaming and computer hacking. The leet lexicon includes spellings of the word as 1337 or leet.

However, leet is also seen in situations where the (e.g. secret language) characteristics of the system are required, either to exclude newbies or outsiders in general, i.e., anything that the average reader cannot make sense of is valid; a valid reader should themselves try to make sense, if deserving of the underlying message.

argot

Mild leet can be used to mess with "as is".

frequency analysis

Calculator spelling

7-segment display

Geek Code

Hexspeak

a glossary and usage dictionary of computer programmer slang

Jargon File

SMS language

All your base are belong to us

and Engrish

Faux Cyrillic

and its "lolspeak", a similar phenomenon in 21st century English language

LOLCAT

a similar phenomenon in Russian language

Padonkaffsky jargon

a similar phenomenon in Chinese language

Martian language

a similar phenomenon in Korean language

Yaminjeongeum

a similar phenomenon in Japanese language

Gyaru-moji

Katelnikoff, Joel (2013). (PhD dissertation). University of Alberta. doi:10.7939/R3PG1J01C.

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