We’ve got a lot of people saying that swapping in either one or two antiquated characters makes it significantly difficult to read, if they don’t know how to interpret the characters.
Maybe dialect is the wrong term, what would you call l33t sp34k?
Thats a fairly close equivalent, though it swaps out more characters and also has its own vernacular, vocabulary.
First time I’ve ever heard that word, but that does make sense.
Funny to imagine it was more or less invented by a bunch of dorky ‘unrestricted internet access’ kids on AIM in the mid to late 90s / early 2000s, as compared to something more like street slang that also serves to obfuscate the meaning to outsiders.
Goodness me, no. It’s much older than that, and I wasn’t exaggerating or kidding when I called it a thieves’ cant. It was developed by hackers in the 80’s to evade moderation and legal authorities. It was then gradually leaked to the more general internet population as Eternal September set in and many children began engaging in hacking and piracy.
We’ve got a lot of people saying that swapping in either one or two antiquated characters makes it significantly difficult to read, if they don’t know how to interpret the characters.
Maybe dialect is the wrong term, what would you call l33t sp34k?
Thats a fairly close equivalent, though it swaps out more characters and also has its own vernacular, vocabulary.
1337 is a thieves’ cant, a kind of cryptolect.
Cryptolect.
First time I’ve ever heard that word, but that does make sense.
Funny to imagine it was more or less invented by a bunch of dorky ‘unrestricted internet access’ kids on AIM in the mid to late 90s / early 2000s, as compared to something more like street slang that also serves to obfuscate the meaning to outsiders.
Goodness me, no. It’s much older than that, and I wasn’t exaggerating or kidding when I called it a thieves’ cant. It was developed by hackers in the 80’s to evade moderation and legal authorities. It was then gradually leaked to the more general internet population as Eternal September set in and many children began engaging in hacking and piracy.