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mythosx

Guest
The internet has produced a new generation of socially awkward, physically challenged and gramatically hindered generation of people. The first 2 require hard work to change. But we can do something about the second one. No one ever says woot in real life. Please don't type it.
 
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Gizmo

Guest
I say woot. And lol, rofl, and leet. And sometimes even haxor or roxor.
 
Oversoul

Oversoul

The Tentacled One
I am sorry to add to the evil, but I must point out that I know people who say "woot" in real life...

I do tend to use persuasive measures against friends of mine who actually say "lol" or "omfg" in real life.
 
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Nightstalkers

Guest
Just to clear things up... |337 is actually an old "code language" and internet "geeks" used to use. I think you can still find some translators online.

What you call |337 now is really just internet chatspeak. I've known people who say "lol, woot," and other internet chatspeak.

It's interesting how the internet effects our culture.
 
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Notepad

Guest
To add to what Nightstalkers said there, the original hacker geek community invented this stuff out of paranoia. They feared government tracking with ancient bots, so they typed in stuff the archaic bots wouldn't know to detect. Somebody asking for "pr0n" for example, thought he was getting around the bots who were sniffing for porn traffickers. Of course, like all stupid things, this language of paranoia became a status symbol and spread with so many hacker wannabees out there.

During the same time, people too lazy or hasty to type things out developed crap like emoticons, and shorthand such as "lol" and "afk."

Both means led to the end of sheer laziness. Which what I think everyone hates.

Now, it lingers not for paranoia or coolness, just for simplicity. I can understand the paranoid or the posers. However, I cannot understand sombody so lazy they type this:

"ne1 hav 2 look 4 me i b at skul 2day"

Yeah, sucker...go learn some English while you're there.
 
Killer Joe

Killer Joe

New member
|337 means ________________________________?

lol means laugh out loud

woot means ________________________________?

BMF means Bad Mother Foinker

rofl means _________________________________?

leet means _________________________________?

PM me if they're over the top in foul language.
 
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Ransac

CPA Trash Man
|337 means leet

lol means laugh out loud

woot means ________________________________?

BMF means Bad Mother Foinker

rofl means Rolling On Floor Laughing

roflmao means Rolling On Floor Laughing My Oink Off

leet means _________________________________?



I think (but merely spectulation) that Leet came from the term "Leet Haxor", which I believe is slang for "Elite Hacker". I'm not positive, so I don't list it above. Woot I believe is just an exclamatory word, such as "Yeah!" or "Boo-Yah!".


Ransac, cpa trash man
 
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Chaos Turtle

Guest
Yup, me too. I say woot, as well as rofl (phonetically, as "roffle"), lol, roXor, and probably some others that don't come immediately to mind.

And, by the way, I don't think anyone who knows me would feel qualified to criticize my use of English. Language evolves for a variety of reasons. To fight it is hopeless. (Unless you're French, in which case it's the law. :p)
 
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DarthFerret

Guest
I too, use these words in "real life" but usually only when I am close to my computer....

Maybe there is a chip in some computers that causes this type of behavior, and Bill Gates really is trying to take over the world by altering language, and ultimately our entire subconsious......???




[Whispers in your head]
(send darthferret money, send darthferret money, send darthferret money)
 
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EricBess

Guest
Not 100% sure, but I think leet is somehow short (or "slang") for elite. Not so much because they believed themselves above things (though I'm sure that was certainly the case with some hackers), but because it was to emphasize that they were "better than the computers"
 
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Chaos Turtle

Guest
Yes, |337 = leet = elite.

In hAXX0r terms, it means you are not one of the kiddies who THINKS he'z a hAXX0r just cuz he can grind out a cute app. Anyone can "haX" but only a few can truly call themselves |337 hAXX0rZ.

Not that I would know anything about that.
 
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Nightstalkers

Guest
And remember class, we don't speak "English" we speak Americanese.

:D
 
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DarthFerret

Guest
Doest thou thinkest we shouldst speak with ye olde King's English?
 
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Nightstalkers

Guest
Originally posted by Nightstalkers
And remember class, we don't speak "English" we speak Americanese.

:D
Click to expand...
Don't listen to him, he's an idiot.
 
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train

Guest
It's not so much the hacker you have to worry about (security wise)... but the cracker... there's some serious intelligence there... and the dedication behind them goes on for days...

Sadly most of the news centers around "hackers"... and when it's really big stuff, they were really crackers...:rolleyes:
 
Ferret

Ferret

Moderator
Staff member
Okay, back on topic. Leetspeak is anything but new. I remember back in my old single-line BBS days when there actually was some pretty sick conversations between some would-be hackers and the real hackers in my area. The would-be's read articles in 2600 Magazine and think they were 'leet hackers and would run around using phrases like "K-Rad Kewel" and other such nonsense. The real hackers were the ones that actually WROTE those articles. It was a lot of fun to watch, because you thought these guys wanted to kill each other, but when you saw them in real life the would-be's continued to talk all weird and the reals were some of the nicest people you could talk to and always had good advice...

-Ferret

"and don't even get me started about that crappy movie w/ Angelina Jolie...."
 
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