Glad you caught that! As you’ve noticed, you can also combine the use of leet, textese and normal spelling or even morph it. Train your brain with this example of leet: If you look at it for the first time it might seem difficult to understand but you’ll be surprised how quickly you will catch it. Leet originated in the 1980s in relay chat services and on bulletin boards. Contrary to what those bottle DJs on YouTube would have you believe, mixing sound isn’t just twiddling fake nobs and sliders to make you look cool on the internet. Another example is n00b, a term for newbie. When numbers instead of letters are used to spell a whole word it is called leet – which, in leet, is written as 1337. This is called SMSish or textese or simply SMS language. In SMS (txting) shortcuts, for instance, 2 can also be used for “to”, 4 can mean “for” and the 8 spells “eat” in gr8, meaning great.
You are most likely familiar with numbers being used to implicate letters, phrases or even symbols.
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