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If you read a word or a sentence from it, congrats you're probably a gamer! A pro! U pwned it! For those who can't recognize even a letter and had a headache trying to configure whatever is written there, well let me decrypt it for you.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

People call this l33t sp34k. I remembered this word since I saw my brother one time and he reminded me of his Jejedays where he managed a page named”Jeje Monsters” and whenever he updates the fan page, he would use a l33t translator. And since my topic is about Jejemon, I became interested with l33t. To start off, what is l33t? Are they related with Jejemon?

An article written by Tdol from UsingElish.Com entitled "Leetspeak- 4 wr1tt3n 4nti-l4ngua4g3", explained what Leetspeak is all about. According to this article, it is a written anti-language found in forums and BBSs using mostly numbers or characters in place of letters to talk about software piracy, hacks and cracks. Because of the unusual way of writing, those outsiders would never get the chance to understand the thread. L33t doesn’t only restrict to numbers as letters, but they also use symbols which bear little resemblance to the letter they represent. The article also provided samples of leetification.

• 10% Leetification - Fourscor3 and s3v3n y3ars ago our fath3rs brought forth on this contin3nt a n3w nation, conc3iv3d in lib3rty and d3dicat3d to th3 proposition that all m3n ar3 cr3at3d 3qual.

• 50% Leetification - ƒ0µr$(0r3 4n�? $3v3n ¥34r$ 490 0µr ƒ47h3r$ br0µ9h7 ƒ0r7h 0n 7h1$ (0n71n3n7 4 n3w n4710n, (0n(31v3�? 1n £1b3r7¥ 4n�? �?3�?1(473�? 70 7h3 pr0p0$1710n 7h47 4££ m3n 4r3 (r3473�? 3qµ4£.

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(Translations made using the AlibinoBlackSheep.com Leet Translator)

As seen above, at 10%, one can still read it for only the letter E was replaced by 3. At 50% more letters are replaced by symbols and by 100% it’s already impossible for one to recognize what is the letter represented by the symbols.

Excerpt from Megatokyo

Another article written by Thrid entitled "An Explanation of l33t Speak" from H2G2 site supported the previous.  This stated the history of the language. Conferring to the article, it was during the 1980s when hackers started using numbers to replace letters. Only few knew the language and those who knew it would mock others saying they are “elites” which was spelled as “3l33t” and was later on became “l33t”; hence the name came from. But this later on faded because it takes too much time to type and from being amusing it became annoying. It once hit the spotlight when a widespread web comic Megatokya used it. Later on it was used by mostly gamers. The article also gave examples of common l33t wherein vowels are replaced by numbers such as A = 4, E = 3, I = 1and O = 0. Others however are more creative, O = (), U = |_|, T = 7, D = |), W = \/\/ and S = $. They also use -0r in place of -ed or –er as in 0wnz0r! (Owned), Z for S, PH for F, 00 for O and punctuation marks are often omitted.  In addition to that, the said article also provided common l33t vocabularies such as:

 

• ·0w|\| or 0wn3d - One of the most popular l33t words it is very loosely defined as beaten or can simply be an expression of awe, for example, 'I 0wn3d you' means 'I have beaten you in a very humiliating fashion', or '0wn4ge!' which means 'That was (or is) very nifty'.
• ·w00t - Derived from 'hoot', this is defined as 'yay', it can be used, for example, upon victory or, possibly, the release and procurement of a new video card.
• ·13wt - Treasure, good merchandise, possessions, a misspelling of loot. Most commonly referring to pirated software, items in a game or promotional giveaways.
• ·h4x0r - Hacker, can be used for a real hacker or simply a very skillful person. This is the most common occurrence of the -0r clause.
• ·ph33r - Fear, most commonly used in such phrases as, 'Ph33r m3!' or 'Ph33r |\/|y 1337 sk1llz!' It can also be written as, 'ph34r'.
• ·sk1llz - Obviously derived from 'skill', referring to skill in some type of online game, programming or hacking. Many times used in conjunction with 'm4d'. As a general rule, if one has sk1llz, one is to be ph33r3d.
• ·m4d - Mad, mostly used as a descriptive term meaning great, for example, 'h3s g0t m4d sk1llz'.
• ·j00 - You, commonly used in such phrases as, 'j00 d34d f00'.
• ·f00 - Fool, one who isn't very bright or skillful.
• ·j0 - Yo, as in the greeting.
• ·d00d - Dude; an expression of comrade, or just used to address a random person online.
• ·sux0r - Sucks, as in '7h1s sux0r', one of the few common examples of the -0r clause.
• ·l4m3r - Lamer, someone who is lame, someone who uses an unfair tactic or generally makes the things around him or her less fun.
• ·n00b - Short for noobie, misspelling of newbie; someone who is new to something, or just not very good at it.

Aren’t satisfied of the words? L33t speak in the site DataGenetics also gave some letters replaced by numbers like L = 1, Z = 2. S = 5, G = 9 T= 7 and I = 1. Also, the site provided you words using l33t. From three-lettered words to 16 lettered word.

Both articles supported my hypothesis that Jejemon and l33tsp34k are somehow similar.  Both are hard to decode and understand. Both are used by only those who understand the nature of language. Both use characters to replace a letter. Both uses misspelled words. Both are used in social media. Both have the levels of being an l33t and being a Jejemon. Both are viral. The only difference is that l33t is accepted, Jejemon isn’t. Isn’t it unfair seeing both have the same purpose and almost the same format and one is accepted and the other is not? It’s like saying you one can make a coffee drink using warm water but not using cold one. It has the same purpose, to be mixed with water and make some refreshment, but the cold one is not accepted? Can you see the resemblance? L33t is accepted and Jejemon is not. In my opinion, they should be both accepted since it seems like Jejemon came from the l33t, it’s just that Jejemons uses sticky caps wherein l33t doesn’t. Maybe the reason why, is that people think using Jejemon is humiliating, it’s only for those lame people, it’s degrading while using l33t makes you feel like a pro, feel like superior to the newbies and those who can't decipher the code.