hakspeak

hakspeak

An informal or coded writing system used primarily in Internet-based communications in which certain ASCII characters are substituted for standard letters that have a similar appearance, such as 3 for E, 0 for O, 1 for I or L, etc. We started writing in hakspeak so our parents wouldn't be able to understand what we were saying if they saw our phones. A: "WH3r3 Sh0uLd w3 m337 UP 70N19h7?" B: "Just write normally, dude. I can't understand that hakspeak nonsense." We have the missing girl's phone, right? OK, then we need to get someone in here to translate this hakspeak and make sense of her texts for clues.

leetspeak

An informal or coded writing system used primarily in Internet-based communications in which certain ASCII characters are substituted for standard letters that have a similar appearance, such as 3 for E, 0 for O, 1 for I or L, etc. We started writing in leetspeak so our parents wouldn't be able to understand what we were saying if they saw it. A: "WH3r3 Sh0uLd w3 m337 UP 70N19h7?" B: "Just write normally, dude. I can't understand that leetspeak nonsense."

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leetspeak

and hakspeak

n. a way of writing or typing on the internet where letters are replaced by number or other symbols. (From elite speak.) The word is spelled p1$t01, rather than pistol in “leetspeak.”

hakspeak

verb

See leetspeak

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