Help me with the next LEAK, please...

OMGWTF! h4xx0rz3d!

b00bz

teh
n00bz
1337 = leet
gh*y (the * is an "e")
fagot, fagget, faget and any number of misspellings of "faggot"
pwned

LOLOLOLOLOL

LOLLORZ, ROFFLEZ and about 50,000 other spellings

First there was the endless stream of exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it was bad.

Then there was the "ironic, hip, on purpose" endless stream of exclamation points!!!!!!!11!!!!11!!!!1!!!!111!!!1 And it was really bad.

Then there was the "clever to the point of absurdity" endless stream of exclamation points!!!!!!!11!!!!11!!oneONE!! And it was really fucking sad.

I'll predict the next stage in the evolution of d00dish punctuation!!exclamationpointexclamationpo1nt11one onegodimsuchasadlittlenerd!!2

Eventually, someone truly hip, clever, and ironic will use the most extreme punctuation of all... a single exclamation point!

I'm playing City of Heroes and whenever somebody on your team levels up, apparently the proper ettiquite is to congratulate them by saying "gratz". Awful.

wot r u doo n?

d00d, tha Steady Leak ownz j00, w00t! o_O

I'll admit to being guilty of some of the dreaded AIM-speak finding its way into my chats. I always feel dirty afterwards, though, and normally doesn't happen often.

Elite.

^__^

root...

~(8(|)

I don't know if it qualifies, but I would also suggest the use of the term "interweb", and the phenomenon. Of. Typing. Like. This. To. Add. Emphasis. Word.

PWN3D-owned

The Straight Dope has a pretty good article on it:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030110.html

RUFL

-u/r jk?
-OWNZ
-thanx
-cuz
-LOL at the end of every sentence (followed by every kind of smiley face)
-Just "U" a lot. What do U mean? R U kidding? That's u/r problem. U should know better. Oh no U didn't. What's wrong wit U?

<3 = as in "i <3 u"

Yep. Linguists refer to it as "Competent Illiteracy", i.e. the ability to communicate without using proper syntax, spelling, grammar, or punctuation.

If I were a teacher and someone used internet language in an essay, it would be an instant F. Schools need to start being more stringent on facets of language, as the younger generation can barely write more than a paragraph without getting totally lost.

Clearly the next stage in human evolution.

LMAOROFLLOL!!!!!! @ G/br

Weird, I always thought <3 meant that you were directing a blast of rim-wind at someone.

Strangely, I don't feel all that dumb about it.

Do your own homework!

o_O

bad = ungood really bad = doubleplusungood

3===>

all your base are belong to us

!!!!!1

My wife teaches 6th & 7th-grade Literature, and has had to nip this in the bud at the beginning of every school year. From what she's said, the most popular offense is using "2" instead of "to."

w00t is the one I've seen the most. I had a buddy that used to include it, ad nauseum, in all of his emails. It drove me up the fucking wall. He refused to cut it out and is now somewhere in the Chesapeake Bay.

I blame Prince 4 that.

.... and the inevitable follow-up "14/F/CA U HON? ^__^ LOL IM KINDA HORNY"

k = kay = okay

"warez" for software (typically bootlegged software)
"pr0n" for pornography

"sploitz" (short for exploits) known vulnerabilities in computer software

"skript kiddie" - a derogatory term used by computer professionals to denote young teenagers who download pre-made automated exploit scripts and who possess little actual understanding of how computer software works internally.

"0wned" - completely dominated (in a game); hacked into (of a computer), in the past tense, this is "0wnz0r3d". This word may also be used as a non-leet, conversational slang term. This term is sometimes spelled pwn or pwnz0r3d, and the origin of this variation is said to have derived from a typo (although this explanation is probably apocryphal): a user-created Warcraft level included a message sent to all players in the event of a player's defeat: (player name) has been owned. However, because P and O are side-by-side in the QWERTY layout, the message is said to have been (player name) has been pwned, and when the level was released, pwned entered the l33tsp33k vocabulary.

"CC" or "carding" for credit card fraud of one form or another

"eggable" for Unix shell accounts (where one can install and run Eggdrop, an IRC bot)

"r00t" for adminstrator privileges (from the Unix administrator account root)

"m4d sk1llz" for hacking talent of one sort or another and also being possessed of great ability in terms of computer games, Webmastering, or flaming. Also used for other talents, in "m4d [talent] sk1llz"; "m4d" itself is often used for emphasis (such as in "m4d fragging.")

"phreaking" for hacking telephone systems and other non-internet equipment

"w1k1", "w1|<1" or "\\^/!|{!" for "wiki"

"n00b" for someone who acts experienced in an area despite little knowledge of that area, also occasionally "pr013", short for "proletariat". (Various other adjectives abound, these being the most civil of them.) Also "pe0n".

"w00t", "w007", or "\\^/007" or the smiley "\\o/" is a common interjection, analogous to "Yeah!" or "Yippee!" It originated as a variant of the interjection "whew."

"haxor", "#4><0|2" for "hacker" -- where the symbols are used to draw rough approximations to letters: >< is an "x", |2 is an "r"
Note that the construction "-xor" or any variation thereof can mean not only "-ker" but also "zor" (which is how a majority of English speakers would say it). In the phrase "r0x0rz my b0x0rz", which means the object of the phrase (usually a game, program, exploit, etc.) is of high quality, "x0rz" in the word "r0x0rz" is almost ignored (pronounced "ks" so that the whole word is "rocks") while the "x0rz" on "b0x0rz" is pronounced "kszors". It is important to note that while "b0x0rz" appears to be leet for "boxers", it is actually from a common leet expression "r0x0r j00r b0x0rz", "b0x0rz" meaning "computers" (sometimes referred to as boxes, or even worse: boxen). "r0x0rz" is generally pronounced as "roks-ors", which is how it is spelled; however, a very small minority pronounce it "rockers", following the usage in "hax0rz". It should be noted that although the spelling of leet is fairly standardized, pronunciation differs widely, as does the actual alphabet used. Much depends on which forum, newsgroup, or chat room the leet is being spoken in.
"h4x" for "hacks"

There are many incarnations of leet, and it is continuously evolving as more people add to it, and thus, a single word can be "spelled" in many different ways. For example, "phonetic" could be |>|-|0n371><, p|-|0|\\|+1|<, |>h0|\\|371<, ph0n371k.


Phonetic spellings
"d00d" for "dude"
"joo" for "you", also written as "j00" or "_|00"
"ph" for "f", as in "phear" for "fear" (as in "ph34r my l33t skillz")
b4k4^2 or |34|<4^2 for "baka Ni." Baka is the Japanese word for "idiots" or "stupidity", while Ni is the Japanese word for "two", so it is meant to be read as "Baka raised to the second power" or "baka squared" (meaning quite stupid) (see Baka-Ni t-shirt). The term is used by the character Ruri Hoshino (as baka baka) in the anime series Martian Successor Nadesico, but subsequently popularized by MegaTokyo.
Note that in true leet, the following are considered improper.

"kewl" or "ku" or "ql" for "cool"
"r" for "are", "u" for "you", "c" for "see" (giving the common "see you")
"2" for "to" or "too", "4" for "for" (but note "4" can also represent an "A")
"8" for "-ate", as "l8r" for "later"
"ne" for "any"

Frequent misspellings
Frequently, common typing errors are also absorbed into leet, such as
"yuo" for "you"
"teh" for "the" (also sometimes used as an intensifier: "He is teh lame")
"pwn" for "own" (to defeat badly, as in a game: "You got pwned") For instance: _|00 607 |*\\^/|\\|3|) ---in other words you got owned, and were the subject of major "ownage". The term "0\\/\\/nze|>" has similar meaning, referring to the process of getting "owned".
"smrt" for "smart"
"waht" for "what"
"leik" or "liek" for "like"

Other examples
"WHeRE @Re J00" for "where are you"

"wH4+'S uR nAME" for "what is your name"

"/\\/\\¡|<£'§ 7££+ §|<¡77§ þ|/\\||/| _|¤¤" -- an example of especially obfuscated leet, this translates to "Mike's leet skills own you".
Leet also draws elements from Engrish, such as "b4k4" (baka), a Japanese term for "fool". Lately, leet draws more and more from Japanese slang, due to the increasing fascination of leet-speakers with it. But "g0s\\/" is Korean!

Another common feature of leet is over-exclamation, where a sentence is postfixed with far too many exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!! In some cases, because the exclamation symbol (!) resides on the same key as the number 1, over-exclamation can be accidentally typed with extraneous digits, owing to the excitement of the typist: d00d th1s r0x0rz!!!!!11 Additionally, the tilde key (~) is used in this fashion: leik this OwNz!!11!!!~~ Some users have adopted this and include it deliberately. A growing phenomenon is deliberately typing the word "one": pwnz0r3d!!!!!11oneoneone. Interestingly, letter-to-number translations do not often occur within these "oneoneone" blocks.




That should help

Jesus Christ, man!

Well, fuck, and here I was thinking I would showboat all my knowledge. Years of lurking in IRC and forums has left me prone to using such terms without realizing it, but luckily I've avoided using them in actual, verbal conversation. Thank god they're not easy to pronounce.

a few that might have been overlooked:

drawing out the letters in words:

ell oh ell, dubya tee eff, oh em gee

and my favorite:

oh noes!


Lame, yeah, but it spices things up. Stop laughing.

W00t is an analog of "cool," or "bitchin'"