All non geeks may feel free to stop reading now. This may well be incomprehensible. I don’t know, I have no context.
There is a dialect of text speech, related to text message abbreviation. Gamer kiddies use it. It’s called 1337, which is pronounced “Leet”. A decent definition is here. I would be in the category that they describe as “certain factions,” and “some communities.”
In recent years, leet has dropped out of style in some communities. Some gamers and Internet users choose not to use it as they consider it to signify weakness and immaturity rather than coolness or of “having skills/sk1LLz”. However, many words from leet are now a significant part of modern Internet culture, such as “pwned”, the common leet misspellings such as “teh” (73|-|), and especially the “z” at the end of words, such as “skillz”. Another prominent example of a surviving leet expression is the ever-popular “woot/w00t”. Also, gamers for whom using Leetspeak seriously is out of style sometimes use it in an ironic sense, e.g. “ph342 m`/ 1337 sk1llz.”
Anyway, to summarize:
At a first level, one starts mIxiNg uP CaPiTalIzAtion.neXTT, sPeLLin gOeS4ft3r T|-|4T 1T G3T5 W0R53...t1ll i+'5 i|\|C0|\/|PR3|-|3|\|518L3.
I have an instance of this which is beyond me. It came up in a rude context, so I’m sure it’s a rip … somehow. The person who sent it to me is mocking me, and says that he’s “133732” (more elite … Leeter) than me. There’s no love here: http://www.jayssite.com/stuff/l33t/l33t_translator.html.
Here is it: 100 points to the first solution that seems to make sense of this cyrillic for me:
/-_//9 U2273)(-
Today’s MegaTokyo makes excellent use of 1337.
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