Microsoft trying to be helpful

[cd34]

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...n/kidtalk.mspx

Excerpt:

A parent's primer to computer slang
Understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them
Published: February 4, 2005

While it's important to respect your children's privacy, understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang where a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically—creating the digital equivalent of pig Latin with a twist of hieroglyphics.

[stuveltje]

Originally Posted by cd34

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...n/kidtalk.mspx

Excerpt:

A parent's primer to computer slang
Understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them
Published: February 4, 2005

While it's important to respect your children's privacy, understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang where a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically—creating the digital equivalent of pig Latin with a twist of hieroglyphics.

hahahahahah me laughing , "stuveltje have you hugged gabbo today" me choking here lolololololol, oke as an answer on your post, nop my kids dont have pricacy , i know what is going on in chats and all so, my kids dont have any chat shit on their puter, or an email, thats how i protect them have seen that shit, no way my kids get in contact with that and microsoft can telll all, still they need the parents to protect their kids....now where is that gabbo guy so i can give him a big kiss on his forhead(mmmmmmm stu<-----is thinking is that realy the right word to say forhead)hee and he is not seen with me i have an alibi (or aliby oh its late here)

[Kinky]

Key points for learning leetspeek
• Numbers are often used as letters. The term "leet" could be written as "1337," with "1" replacing the letter L, "3" posing as a backwards letter E, and "7" resembling the letter T. Others include "8" replacing the letter B, "9" used as a G, "0" (zero) in lieu of O, and so on.

• Non-alphabet characters can be used to replace the letters they resemble. For example, "5" or even "$" can replace the letter S. Applying this style, the word "leetspeek" can be written as "133t5p33k" or even "!337$p34k," with "4" replacing the letter A.

• Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using "Z" for a final letter S, and "X" for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer "5x1llz" (skills).

• Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Some leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar, or drop vowels from words (such as converting very to "vry").

• Mistakes are often left uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (typos) such as "teh" instead of the are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling altogether.

• Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For example, using slashes to create "/\/\" can substitute for the letter M, and two pipes combined with a hyphen to form "|-|" is often used in place of the letter H. Thus, the word ham could be written as "|-|4/\/\."

• The suffix "0rz" is often appended to words for emphasis or to make them plural. For example, "h4xx0rz," "sk1llz0rz," and "pwnz0rz," are plural or emphasized versions (or both) of hacks, skills, and owns.

Gabbo said it would be easier to learn chinese

[stuveltje]

Originally Posted by kinky

Key points for learning leetspeek
• Numbers are often used as letters. The term "leet" could be written as "1337," with "1" replacing the letter L, "3" posing as a backwards letter E, and "7" resembling the letter T. Others include "8" replacing the letter B, "9" used as a G, "0" (zero) in lieu of O, and so on.

• Non-alphabet characters can be used to replace the letters they resemble. For example, "5" or even "$" can replace the letter S. Applying this style, the word "leetspeek" can be written as "133t5p33k" or even "!337$p34k," with "4" replacing the letter A.

• Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike. Using "Z" for a final letter S, and "X" for words ending in the letters C or K is common. For example, leetspeekers might refer to their computer "5x1llz" (skills).

• Rules of grammar are rarely obeyed. Some leetspeekers will capitalize every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS) and otherwise reject conventional English style and grammar, or drop vowels from words (such as converting very to "vry").

• Mistakes are often left uncorrected. Common typing misspellings (typos) such as "teh" instead of the are left uncorrected and may be adopted to replace the correct spelling altogether.

• Non-alphanumeric characters may be combined to form letters. For example, using slashes to create "/\/\" can substitute for the letter M, and two pipes combined with a hyphen to form "|-|" is often used in place of the letter H. Thus, the word ham could be written as "|-|4/\/\."

• The suffix "0rz" is often appended to words for emphasis or to make them plural. For example, "h4xx0rz," "sk1llz0rz," and "pwnz0rz," are plural or emphasized versions (or both) of hacks, skills, and owns.

Gabbo said it would be easier to learn chinese

oke call me stupid i realy dont care but i dont understand shit of that post..but then i am the dutch chinese english oldie at this time, so i have an alibi or aliby....oh damn who cares

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by stuveltje

oke call me stupid i realy dont care but i dont understand shit of that post..but then i am the dutch chinese english oldie at this time, so i have an alibi or aliby....oh damn who cares

I don't understand it either, I guess it is a new language all the kids are using these days and that is how microsoft explains to parents how to decipher their kids messages, although it probably just confuses them even more

[cd34]

When I started doing web hosting in Baltimore in 94, we had high schools organizing PTA meetings because their kids were asking their parents to buy web hosting for them on a server that supported PHP. And the parents didn't want their kids taking PHP and getting into drug problems, and ISPs shouldn't contribute to selling drugs to minors, etc. etc.

Newspapers refused our ads after hundreds of phone calls because we were distributing PHP with every account.

I spent a month doing PTA meetings educating parents.

[stuveltje]

Originally Posted by kinky

I don't understand it either, I guess it is a new language all the kids are using these days and that is how microsoft explains to parents how to decipher their kids messages, although it probably just confuses them even more

hahahahaha very cool, well i can tell you i was chocked when i went in a chatroom for the first time and saw a kid name libby age 9 years old enter the room with adults, it was sick how the guys react, i always said hell my kids wont go there, also with iqc, i am always invisble, reason hell those dutch are sick, i remember ones i got a message saying : what would you do when your at the mall and i putt my hand on your ass.....i answer : i would kick your freaken ass, the guy answered...i dont want yuo on my list.lol. i dont want my kids to get those messages either, so i blocked all, no chat, no icq, no msn, no email, the emails go thru my accound, the first who sexual bug my kids i will kill.....

[Kinky]

Originally Posted by cd34

When I started doing web hosting in Baltimore in 94, we had high schools organizing PTA meetings because their kids were asking their parents to buy web hosting for them on a server that supported PHP. And the parents didn't want their kids taking PHP and getting into drug problems, and ISPs shouldn't contribute to selling drugs to minors, etc. etc.

Newspapers refused our ads after hundreds of phone calls because we were distributing PHP with every account.

I spent a month doing PTA meetings educating parents.

my buddy Gabbo got hooked on PHP, that is some nasty stuff, we had an intervention but he never showed up

[stuveltje]

heeeee i did nothing with gabbo, why i am in your sig with gabbo, if i see gabbo i show him ...using my name ....shame on him Stu<----------is a decent woman but dont run away for some kicking ass which making her hubby worried sometimes because stu has sometimes a realy bad attitude to people, specialy if they have their nose in the air and think the are god...there is only one god...stu<-----is ...Hall said so

[Verbal]

lol... 1337 h4x0rz w4nn48335.
Anyone who thinks it's still cool to type that way is an asshat. It's even more hilarious that M$ has published a decipher guide for parents.
scriptkiddies

[Wenchy]

Odd that I should come across this thread... there was a story on the local news last night about this very topic. Curiosity got the better of me and I stuck around to see what they had to say, and it was almost as helpful as the crap from M$, basically of no use to parents at all, IMO, and certainly not to some of the clueless parental units who can't even find the "any" key.

I was pretty amused that they did think to mention LOL in their very brief list of "coded words", given that it's been around as long as I've been on the net (cripes, has it really been almost eight years?!?) and for many, many moons before my time and hardly qualifies as part of any secret language.

I could sum up advice for parents in one simple sentence: Don't let your minor children access chat rooms or IM proggies on the net. Simple, easy, straightforward, and doesn't require half-assed assistance from Mr. G4t3s and company.

[Linkster]

Man - I cant wait till people start using terms like L8r hehehehe - I own the domain and am just waiting for the web to be completely ported to cell phones - the traffics gonna be hellacious

[stuveltje]

babymaker has the urge at ans to talk with 4 an 8 and ect shit, and realy i have always trouble to read his postings....but then alot have that with mine and i dont even use the 4 and 8 things