Microsoft’s Publish Guide To Computer Slang

In an effort to help protect children online and guide parents in how to protect them, Microsoft have recently put up a “parent’s primer to computer slang”.

View: A parent’s primer to computer slang

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.

kewl! rox0rs phor n00b par3n7s

Source: Microsoft