Teh 1337

So I was surfing Deviant Art, and I see someone's signature, it reads...
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1f u c^n r3^d th1s u r3^lly n33d t0 g37 l^1d

l3|_|7....

!l= '/0|_| (^^/ 123^l) 7ln!$ '/0|_| 123^l_l_'/ 123^l_l_'/ 123^l_l_'/ ^/33l) 70 937 l_^!l)
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Now for most of you, its "too much". Well guess what?

Its actually not that hard. Its just your ability to recognize basic shapes.
For example, l=, what does it look like? an "F".
'/? A Y of course.
12? R!

These are basic representations of letters. Its the same with fonts, even though it has a different look, the symbol is still the same.

so 937, what does that mean? GET.

In this person's case, "^" represents "A", because 12 3 "^" l_ l_ '/, the 12 as covered is an R, 3 is an E, l_ is a no brainer, and '/ is a Y, so RE^LLY.

If your mind can process these shapes then you can read 1337 5l>34l< fluently.

Heres a test for you, simple.

[-]0\/\/ /\/\l_l<[-] V/0o[) <4[/] 4 \/\/o0[) <[-]V<[< Cl-l[_]c[<?

Wow, thats...

My head hurts.

I actually understand that. That is really sad. And I DO NOT need to get laid. My love life is rated 16 and up! XD

Getting laid is overrated and overdone. Be more creative.

Anyway, sometimes it does come down to simply shape recognition, but some of the letters and numbers aren't the right shape, so it doesn't always work. But you can usually figure those out, too.

I ^/\/\ teh 1337

Ditto snip snip

It took me ages to figure out what the second one meant.

You can always dissect it shape by shape.

h4 h4 h4, 1 pwn j00!!! (1337 has actually 2 main forms now. The above form, which is actually a dialect of intelligent people, as unintelligent people cannot figure it out. And the latter, which I just demonstrated, which is more lazy, quick-short cut version 1337. I normally use a combination of both, because it looks better, and is easier to write/read)

no, thats called AOL speak.

I went to the movies and I liked it.

i saw tha movy n i liekd it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111

LMAO! AOL speak is basically like the same as n00b speek it seems...

xactly. teh n00b sp34k is teh 1337 . :rolleyes:

teh nub speak is not teh leet spak.

If you want noob speak look at my art threads.
So many people post nooby stuff.

Like...

sum1 w8 for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dude, I know, Im joking around. I can write/understand all forms of this from n00b aol speak to 12e^l 1337 sp3^k.

Sponson, I know someone on MSN who speaks worse n00bish than you... <____<;

omfg i lik toly lve u1!

And what about the Motie speak where all they ever use is stupid picture things for letters.... ARGH! And l33t? Bleurgh, there's no point to it! xP

Okay... I read "If you can read this than you really need to get" and then my brain shut down an I couldn't get any further... yikes... who thinks of these things?!