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1337

1337

Date: May 09 2008

Themes: Hobbies, How To, Tech

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Hai, how r u? Wat? U can7 read th1s? LOL!

If you can read the line above, you are 1337. “1337” is pronounced “leet” and it refers to the word “elite.” The unusual spelling comes from the fact that the digits in the number “1337” resemble the letters that spell “leet,” and those who can understand this sort of writing (which is common on the Internet) are supposedly “elite” computer users.

Or complete nerds.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Mason

Mason

Jason

Jason

Mason:  I got an email from a friend of mine the other day.

Jason:  Yeah.

Mason:  And every time he signs it, he says “w00t” at the end.

Jason:  With the zeros?

Mason:  Yeah yeah.

Jason:  It’s 1337!

Mason:  Dude, it’s totally 1337. I…How did you…What got you into that?

Jason:  I might have a hobby of pwning n00bs from time to time. I’ll log on to some games maybe and when you’re chatting it makes you seem tough in a video game if you just throw in some letters that are actually numbers.

Mason:  And that’s so funny because I heard the myth is that the whole way of speech basically came about from doing typos because you’re playing a game and you can’t see what you’re doing.

Jason:  Totally. “The” is “teh” just because of a typo and stuff like that.

Mason:  Yeah. But it’s so weird and it’s so totally impractical.

Jason:  It’s a code now. But it is totally impractical. It takes forever to type it out.

Mason:  The first time I ever saw it, I was like, “What’s going on?”

Jason:  I can’t decide if you’re cooler for knowing 1337 or if you’re less cool.

Mason:  At this point, I think that the tipping point has passed and we’re cool.

 

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Discussion

Mason has a friend who signs his emails with “w00t”. “W00t” is a common 1337 word that expresses excitement. It was officially added to the dictionary of the English language last year!

Jason uses 1337 when he plays games online. 1337 started among online gamers who made typing mistakes because they were too busy playing the game to look at what they were typing. Then it evolved into a code.

In fact, 1337 has come so far that Mason thinks it’s not just for gamers anymore. It’s cool for everyone to know 1337 now.

1337 is any abbreviation or alternate spelling used on the Internet. 1337 shows up on Ebaby! all the time. Can you find an example?

 

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RaneeConstantine

Indonesia

In “Bahasa” I mean “Indonesia Language, we are familiar with the use of numbers such as R 4 N 1 = R A N I_

08:28 AM May 09 2008 |

wanglong123

China

Well,actually there are also many 1337 in China now,like "PK" and "LZ".

"PK" means fight or competition,and "LZ" means the person who post a subject in a forum.It's very popular and useful.

06:42 AM May 09 2008 |

dingchunyan

China

Smile

06:20 AM May 09 2008 |

hashimu_mallya

Tanzania, United Republic Of

am Tanzanian guy my levory education is standard seven, am not undestanding to speak and write realy english, i need sponcers from all around the world, Iam not feel happy now but after that iwill be happy.

 

06:17 AM May 09 2008 |

fjoan

fjoan

China

1337 is equal to "leet",as the letters are resemble to "1337" when writing.

It's not fresh if you chat with english friends I think.

06:16 AM May 09 2008 |

ola3

ola3Super Member!

Ukraine

Some other 1337 words I've seen in the net are:

ROFL -rolling on floor laughing

IMHO-in my humble opinion

+1 -means you agree.

If you want the whole collection go urbandictionary :)

 

04:32 AM May 09 2008 |

cynthia86dxh

China

It’s interesting

04:22 AM May 09 2008 |

cynthia86dxh

China

I can't get it

04:20 AM May 09 2008 |

yyjessica

yyjessica

China

hi dearpesar 

i find the two letters

pwn : internet slang(1337)for "own";to defeat,to humiliate

n00b:internet slang(1337)for beginner "newbie"

i don't know wether you can understand of it

03:44 AM May 09 2008 |

yyjessica

yyjessica

China

it's so interesting

03:40 AM May 09 2008 |

dearpesar

dearpesar

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

1 s7111 d0n7 kn0w wha7 d03s m3an pwning n00b?

i still dont know what does mean pwning n00b"

any one can help?

01:45 AM May 09 2008 |

rainben

rainben

China

It's cool.

12:51 AM May 09 2008 |

rusminah

rusminah

Malaysia

I totally lost it

12:35 AM May 09 2008 |

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