Giltwist

(As usual, this is for my poetry class and the assignment was to write a nonsensical poem. I figured, for most folks, leetspeak was pretty nonsensical)

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Coppertop

Love the edit: a typo in leetspeak. Is that even possible?

zen_tom

what is a leet anyway? can someone explain?

Coppertop

FYI the poem reads:

It seems as if nothing is here at all,
but in the mind of any twelve year old
reading plaintext just makes skin want to crawl.
So accept that you'd better learn this code.

If you are still lost, you are slow as molasses;
and, if you can read this, you need new glasses.

D035 +|-|4+ |-|31p u 4|\|y?

zen_tom

yes, |\/|4|\|y +|-|4n|<5
I was able to read it, I just don't know what leet, or 1337 or presumably 133+ means.

Dane Bramage

Is there a 133+ to English dictionary for us old folks?

And good poem too... I liked how the subject matter is directly relating to the form. Very well done.

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Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan

Coppertop

This isn't a dictionary per se, but it will translate any English into leetspeak for you.

zen_tom

Ahh, so 1337 (leet) is a contraction of elite - never actually bothered finding that one out before!

Coppertop

Yes, and leet is derived from elite. It's sad that I know these things, for sure.

Dane Bramage

|-|3|-| |-|3|-|... +|-|4+'5 pr3++y (001.

__________________
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan