If you are parent of children who go on the Interent then it is vital that you run over and checkout Microsoft’s guid to computer slang. Here are some of the basics:
- Numbers are often used as letters.
- Characters of similar appearance can be used to replace the letters they resemble.
- Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike.
- Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed.
- Mistakes are often uncorrected.
- Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters.
How could they leave out seX0rz? Everyone needs their seX0rz. By me mentioning it instead of Microsoft does that mean the got pwn3d? d00d, joo got pwn3ed! rox0rs!
via Simon
They mentioned that ‘s’ may be replaced with ‘$’ but they use completely the wrong word example, it should have been:
Micro$oft
This is a great moment to mention my hacker translator. Test it out!