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May 7, 2006
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And the translation:
Leet speak rocks if you like it, and sucks if you don't. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay. With the proliferation of online gaming, instant messaging, and cell phone text messaging, leet speak has come into it's own. It began back in the 80's on dial-up bulletin boards, as a cool way for wanna-be hackers to speak, and has had a sort of rebirth in recent years, due to the popular tools mentioned above. If you have no idea what I am talking about, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
Posted by Mike at May 7, 2006 11:30 AM
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I am one of the haters of it. It is headache inducing and or the cause of numerous miscommunications!!
Posted by: sally at May 8, 2006 11:19 PM
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