Basically, I’m updating this post. I posted it sometime last year or was it 2 years ago? Can’t seem to remember… but a lot has changed since then! What hasn’t changed though is that fact that 1337 has changed my entire way of writing secret stuff. Really! So am I a geek or what? lolz. I’m hoping y’all learn something worthwhile during your brief stay here… and it might as well be fun! Get ready to learn something fun! So what is 1337?
LEET (1337) is a written language or cipher used in online gaming, e-mails, text messaging, and other electronic communication. The root of the term “leet” is the word “elite”–translated as 31337–and 1337 was initially developed as an exclusionary language: a way to encode text so that messages could only be read by the initiated. The defining characteristic of 1337 is substitution of symbols and numbers for letters (for example, in the term “1337,” 1=L, 3=E and 7=T).
1337 looks like this: If you read through 1337 $|o3/-\|< |=/-\57 3|\|0U9|-| u </-\|\| 937 /-\ |0T 0F \/\//-\7 |7 5/-\5, 7|-|3|\| U c/-\|\| F|9uR3 0u7 \/\//-\7 u |\/||553o|.
can you understand anything I wrote? If yes, congrats; I need to come learn from you. If no, well, then let’s learn together.
SYMBOLS AND MEANINGS IN 1337:
A = 4, /-\, @, ^, /\ , //-\\
B = 8, ]3, ]8, |3, |8, ]]3, 13
C = (, { , [[, <, €
D = ), [}, |), |}, |>, [>, ]]), Ð
E = 3, ii, €
F = |=,(=, ]]=, ph
G = 6, 9, (_>, [[6, &
H = #, |-|, (-), )-(, }{, }-{, {-}, /-/, \-\, |~|, []-[], ]]-[[,╫
I = 1, !, |, ][, []
J = _|, u|, ;_[], ;_[[
K = |<, |{, ][<, ]]<, []<
L = |,1, |_, []_, ][_, £
M = /\/\, |\/|, [\/], (\/), /V\, []V[], \\\, (T), ^^, .\\, //., ][\\//][,
N = /\/, |\|, (\), /|/, [\], {\}, ][\][, []\[], ~
O = 0, (), [], <>, *, [[]]
P = |D, |*, |>, []D, ][D
Q = commas are necessary: (,) or 0, or O, or O\ or []\
R = |2, |?, |-, ]]2 []2 ][2
S = 5,$,š
T = 7, +, ‘]’, 7`, ~|~, -|-, ‘][‘, “|”, †
U = (_), |_|, \_\, /_/, \_/, []_[], ]_[, µ
V = \/ , \\//,√
W = \/\/, |/\|, [/\], (/\), VV, ///, \^/, \\/\//, 1/\/, \/1/, 1/1/
X = ><, }{, )(, }[
Y = ‘/, %, `/, \j , “//, ¥, j, \|/, -/
Z = 2, z, 7_,`/_
Tips on 1337
1. 5 looks a bit like an S, as does a $, so either of these symbols (among others) could be substituted for an S.
2. |= for F or |3 for B
3. f = ph, cks = xx, s = z or r = are. This practice is certainly not unique to 1337–you don’t have to be a 1337$p34|<3r (leetspeaker) to figure out the phrase “i luv u.”
4. Most of the words in 1337 are simply misspellings of English words (“taht”, for example), some are actually new coinages, such as “nooblet”–this could be written, for example, as “n008137”–which denotes a “noobie,” or the ‘newguy’ |\|3\/\/|3 (newb) someone new to 1337 or something else.
This is more than a day’s work! Lemme know sentences you can construct!
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