# Bouts with 1337-1t15
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 9, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815 "2003-02-09T03:15:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Stccrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stccrd)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/1 "2003-02-09T03:15:34Z")
I have suffered from 1337-1t15 (leet-itis) one major time. It involved the creation of a username (h0ndaphr33k) that I use on other boards. I was in awe with the “language”. Then I came to the SDMB and fixed my ways.
Anyone else?
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/2 "2003-02-09T03:35:24Z")
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/3 "2003-02-09T04:34:17Z")
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/4 "2003-02-09T04:35:49Z")
…That “a” was supposed to be a cyrillic E sorta thing…
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### Author:  [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/5 "2003-02-09T04:38:28Z")
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### Author:  [@Bubba\_Ray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubba_Ray)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/6 "2003-02-09T12:51:24Z")
I first stumbled upon leet in late 1998, in the good ole days of the int@rweb… it was cool, I picked it up almost naturally, soon my sp3ak b3c4me3 a b17 li3k th15.
It was cool, back then you could express j00rs3lf different, but s0()n my language would slip into deep £€37, looking l13k s0//\30n€ |34|2f3/) ÆN @N5! 74bL€ 4££ Øv3r the keyboard.
Tales for the l33t, mmo(rp)gs and the progress of webcomix then made leet from an injoke to a mass phenomenon, and as everything featured in thinkgeek it was l4m3.
I got rid of that habbit, only occasionally using a well placed w00t, roxxor or pwned to make myself understood.
My name is Bubba Ray, and I am a 1337 5p34k3r.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/7 "2003-02-09T13:04:47Z")
STOP THAT! STOP THAT RIGHT NOW! BAD DOPERS! NO EVIL LEETSPEAK! BAD!!!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
I _swear_ ! It’s like teaching puppies not to do it on the rug! 😛
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### Author:  [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/8 "2003-02-09T16:17:29Z")
I’ve never been good with languages.
Silly geek languages are even worse.
Or, maybe I’m just jealous of the way leetspeak rolls tripingly off the keyboards of some?
Naaah!!
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### Author:  [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/9 "2003-02-09T16:26:18Z")
I for one welcome our new l337 masters 😛
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### Author:  [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/10 "2003-02-09T20:57:51Z")
For the l337 challenged:
[http://home.olemiss.edu/~dpark/l33t.html](http://home.olemiss.edu/~dpark/l33t.html)
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/11 "2003-02-09T21:19:05Z")
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/12 "2003-02-09T21:41:04Z")
Why did I read this? I now have a headache…
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### Author:  [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/13 "2003-02-10T02:32:10Z")
My eyes are tearing up.
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/14 "2003-02-10T03:35:44Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Binarydrone \*
> \*\*I for one welcome our new l337 masters 😛 \*\*
I checked, and they haven’t taken over yet. It was a close-up on one of our cameras.
(Takes down “|-|@IL 1337s” sign)
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### Author:  [@leechbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leechbabe)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/15 "2003-02-10T04:35:36Z")
This thread needs a host / hostess pointing out the emergency exits.
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### Author:  [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/16 "2003-02-10T09:05:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/17 "2003-02-10T10:49:26Z")
w00t and l33t (and w00tw00tl33tl33tl33tw00t) are worthy, others are unworthy.
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### Author:  [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bouts-with-1337-1t15/153815/18 "2003-02-10T12:51:31Z")
3y3 #4/3 ||0 id34 //#47 **J355i|\