{"id":450,"date":"2005-09-14T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2005-09-14T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T21:15:00","slug":"8-57r7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"8 @ 57@r7"},"content":{"rendered":"

A coworker of mine got a new phone extension –1337. As we all know, this totally pwns.<\/p>\n

For those of you not disgustingly geek-assed enough to know what I’m talking about, this is leetspeak (or “13375p34k”), the odd twisting of the English language used by online gamers. I recommend the wikipedia entry<\/a> on the topic for a good summary of the major points. Anytime you see numbers used instead of letters in the middle of a word, the suffix “-xors” added to a word for no reason, and other such nonsense, back slowly away until you can feel functioning society around you again.<\/p>\n

From a linguistic standpoint, leetspeak fascinates me, particularly its prevalence and standardization. How can so many people use the same made-up rules in the same way? I understand why a secretive “language” or code system would be used by girl-phobic basement-dwellers as they bop around pretending to be elves. It’s a step above jargon, intentionally meant to conceal and confuse, that only the insiders can interpret or often even recognize. This is geek perfection.<\/p>\n

That being said, do not ever use leet in conversation with me. I will smack you, y0u 0v3rc4ff3’n473d w4ck0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A coworker of mine got a new phone extension –1337. As we all know, this totally pwns. For those of you not disgustingly geek-assed enough to know what I’m talking about, this is leetspeak (or “13375p34k”), the odd twisting of the English language used by online gamers. I recommend the wikipedia entry on the topic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}