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Hacker Slang
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Hacker Slang

Hacker Slang

(OP)
Since we're talking about language, I found this posting from Microsoft regarding the slang you may come across in computer circles.  I'll admit, I knew most of these already, but I guess I'm starting to get too old and uncool to have known them all.



http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

Edward L. Klein
Pipe Stress Engineer
Houston, Texas

"All the world is a Spring"

All opinions expressed here are my own and not my company's.

RE: Hacker Slang

That was pretty kewl.  Still being in gaming circles, I actually knew most of those, but I am not l337 nor do I have the 5k1llz to kn0w TH3M 411.

RE: Hacker Slang

1 h473 £337.  1 9µ3$$ 1 4m n07 3£173 3n0µ9h 70 µ$3 £337.

Leet-English Translator:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/leet.php

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RE: Hacker Slang

Interesting! I have two teens. This will help me understand. I need to study this, it is new for me.

Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)

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RE: Hacker Slang

My brother, 11 years younger than me, uses "haqzor" in normal speech.  As a verb, I might add.

Hg

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RE: Hacker Slang

Spreads like bobonic plague.  Grumpy old me has two objections: It aint HACKER* slang. It erodes the sense for written and spoken language. Period.

Remember the good old hacker? He who named the Apache server (after "a patch") and named a CD burning program "Nero" (burning ROM). That is creative hacker language! There are hundreds of such examples. But this abuse of equipment and human intellect has no value - at least not for me.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org

RE: Hacker Slang

This stuff was figured out by someone with too much time on their hands.  Maybe too much money, too.

rmw

RE: Hacker Slang

So leet-speek should be called cracker slang, not hacker slang, and hacker slang is apparently what my nonhacker but Relay-riding self grew up thinking was pretty normal, which means much of it has been just plain nerdspeak for a couple of decades and some of it probably always was.

(Hey, at least *I* know what I just said.)

Hg

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RE: Hacker Slang

I just hope the local community college offers a leet-speek class so I can communicate effectively in the coming years.

Regards,

An apathetic slacker Gen-X'r

RE: Hacker Slang

You don't need to go as far as a community college. Just go to your local Internet Cafe, into the game room, and join a LAN game of Counterstrike, Warcraft, or any other online game for that matter.

I used to have to go to the Web cafe to print and send e-mails, and the only room they had WAS the game room. I was always stuck between two kids wearing heasets (and still finding it necessary to scream). It's a wonder I made it through that school year at all...

RE: Hacker Slang

Boy, that's a long way from the silent rooms filled with rows of VT100 terminals...I miss those things.

By the time I came along, the VTs' days were numbered and Macs were the hot new thing.  So they didn't bother locking up the VT100 rooms, and we would sometimes sleep there in the summer for the air conditioning.

Hg of the BITNET generation

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RE: Hacker Slang

We were high tech when we used VT100 emulators on our Macs so we could talk to the Vax and still have the cool new graphics on the same monitor! The guys would fight over who got the VT125 color monitors!

I must admit this is the first I've seen of this new slang. What is the advantage?  Is it faster to type on cell phone when sending text message?

RE: Hacker Slang

It's not about advantage.  It's about warping language for fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

This article suggests that one origin may have been to get around banned words (like "hacker") on the BBS.

Hg

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