Microsoft flexes it's mad documentation skillz, and writes a "good" article designed to help parents understand what their kids say on the 'net.
And I quoteth:
While it's important to respect your children's privacy, understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang where a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically - creating the digital equivalent of pig Latin with a twist of hieroglyphics.
And yes, it gets funnier...
A parent's primer to computer slang [Microsoft.com via Ars Technica]
Posted by peter on February 17, 2005 at 09:23 PMThere's a translator for that.
http://ryanross.net/leet/
heh ;-)
Posted by: darron at February 18, 2005 07:29 AM