Japan Amazed By L33T Speak

L33T Speak probably isn't something you want to teach someone, if only because it is an annoying way to type. But an American reporter decided that Japan needs to learn the fine nuances of the 'l33t' language and the Japanese audience seemed thrilled with this new way of typing!

[jack who]

zzıɥs 11nq ɯns sıɥʇ

[JYstiq808]

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[CrippleH]

You can thank old school Counter Strike fans for 1337 speak.

[zootang]

I thought it was the british with the invention of texting back in the early nintys

[Timesplitter14]

I'd rather BLAME them for l33t speak

[Azurite]

It spread from Quake.
Though, make no mistake, it existed even before then. But Quake and later Quake3 messed it up and spread it to Counter-Strike, polluting it.

[evrfighter]

im fairly positive it was invented by starcraft players. But made popular by cs players

[HolyOrangeCows]

''L337'' speak is just stupid abbreviations and numbers used instead of letters.

It was not invented by any community. I DEFINITELY remember McD signs using numbers if they ran out of a letter back before online gaming was anything (Or even the internet).

[SaberEdge]

That was great. I love the Japanese.

[SixZeroFour]

i thought it was first used by hackers

[Saaking]

leet speak is just annoying. I don't see what the point is really. Anyone with a brain can understand leet speak so you might as well type normally.

[Serial_EDX]

90 PhU(|< j00R53LPh

XD

[D4RkNIKON]

It is annoying but as gamers we are used to it. Every thing we talk about and read gets abbreviated. Game titles especially..

MW2
GOW
KZ2
FF13
ODST
MGS4 to name just a few examples. But you and I know exactly what each of those means.

[Pennywise]

That is not l33t speak... thats abbreviations or acronyms .

[D4RkNIKON]

It is all relative Pennywise... BTW do you listen to Pennywise or does your name just refer to "IT"

[Pennywise]

My name originated from the band... The it avatar is too cool :)

[Jerk120]

Just like they were and still are thrilled with the English language.

Don't tell Japan about these things, it only makes things worse.

[kaveti6616]

Finally, the Americans made some that impresses the Japanese.

[gumgum99]

I know, right?

[Foxgod]

who says the Americans invented it?

[El_Colombiano]

The OP.

[Foxgod]

Is the op, anyone of historical significance?
Aka is he > N00B?

@below
I am not the subject of discussion here, but nice try.

[El_Colombiano]

Are YOU, anyone of historical significance?
Aka are you > N00B?

[Natsu X FairyTail]

Ipods.
Windows 95+++

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

....

[FACTUAL evidence]

LOL, i kno. cuz the 360 d4m sur3 d1dn'7 1mpr355 7h3m!

[kaveti6616]

No, I'm not anyone of historical significance, whatever the hell that means. Americans physicists also invented the first transistors a long time ago, so I was just joking about L33T speak being the first thing. Foxgod, don't be a douche, please.

[OhNoez]

leet seapk scuks!

[Foxgod]

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[Pennywise]

01001010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01110011 00101110

[DelbertGrady]

Binary speak? I don't speak machine code...

[Pennywise]

Neither do I... but this site does: http://www.roubaixinteracti...

[mrv321]

I learnt the binary alphabet at one point... but now I remember little of it.

[BLuKhaos]

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[Pennywise]

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[BLuKhaos]

011011000110111101101100001000 0001110100011010000110000101101 1100110101101110011001000000110 0110011011110111001000100000011 1010001101000011001010010000001 1011000110100101101110011010110 0100000011011010110000101101110 0010110000100000011011100110111 1011101110010000001001001001000 0001101000011000010111011001100 1010010000001100001001000000111 0111011000010111100100100000011 1010001101111001000000111011001 1001010111001001100010011000010 1101100011011000111100100100000 0110000101100010011101010111001 1011001010010000001110100011010 0001100101001000000110010001110 1010110110101100010011000010111 0011011100110010000001100010011 0111101110100011100110010000001 1101110110100101110100011010000 1101111011101010111010000100000 0111010001101000011001010010000 0011011010110111101100100011100 1100100000011001000110010101101 1000110010101110100011010010110 1110011001110010000001101101011 1100100100000011100000110111101 110011011101000111001100101110

[Mc Fadge]

0000001
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OH! OHHH OH!

[BYE]

Looks like a rising business.

I'm gonna move to Japan and open l33t language schools.

[El_Colombiano]

And make a killing!

[Captain Tuttle]

That's actually a great idea. You'd probably make a fortune.

[RSX]

Is that you would probably make alot of money doing that.

[DelbertGrady]

Super Ultra Doki Doki L33t Panic! Taisen School Turbo Edition.

[SaberEdge]

That was funny, Soda Popinsky. Bubbles.

[Elwenil]

Foolishness.

[TheBand1t]

1337 $93@|< |$ +3|-| |33$+

[Servbot]

Please don't encourage this... It's bad enough that so many people type that way already.

[TheBand1t]

Nobody likes a Grammar Nazi.

[Mc Fadge]

In my examinations at school, the last examinations of high school, people are allowed to write like this in everything but English.

It's an accepted form of writing :(

[CaptainMarvelQ8]

=) :) :(

you turn them around and ... and ... they turn into faces!!!!!!
omg wtf is that!
<3
you turn it & it turns into a freaking heart
who is the genius behind this mind blowing invention
(japanese ppl thoughts)

[Nik]

ಠ_ಠ

[corneliuscrust]

best reply ever

[xoxideu]

inb4inb4..

[Natsu X FairyTail]

deleted.

[Lionsguard]

Japan has known about the smiley faces since forever and they make up crazier ones than us. Those Japanese are just out of touch with the current generation.

[Ps_alm3k]

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[JustinSaneV2]

I love how two of the three Americans in the video were an Eminem wannabe and an overweight person.

[Grandreaper9999]

I first encountered it immediately after wc2 released, then most battle.net gamers seemed to be using it whenever possible.

[Stryder]

I thought 133t was made by hackers to thwart the FBI from using the old search engines to sniff out hacker webpages during one of the hacker crackdown's.

[TheObserver]

I observed that Japanese 2chan bbs has crazy 1337 speak.

[Xiru]

Started with Quake 1. Sadly I was a part of this back in the day. :( Quake 1 by itself wasn't popular enough to allow it to catch on at a widespread level. For that, you can thank Counter-Strike. Now we are teaching the Japanese bad language and grammar. Yay!

[Stryder]

Yay! :)