Hi-LAR-ious video: Local news channel does "exposé" on kids' dangerous Leet speak trend. OMG!

[Bucky]

Don't watch this video if laughing out loud in your cubicle can get you fired.

"'LOL'... It's part of a complicated and--be warned--a potentially dangerous code kids use to keep their parents in the dark"
and
"Internet safety experts are sounding a warning. The language is morphing into a dangerous dialect foreign to parents."

They reveal the arcane and sinister meanings of such "online lingo" as "Wat ya up 2?" and "hI @r3 J00 hom3 4lON3?"

B 4|=r4ID, B V3RY 4|=r4ID!

[pooja]

1. Ok, I don't know what all of that means, but who cares?

[zbdent]

2. Really? Wow ... now I can figure out all those spam messages say ...

:eyes:

Last week of sweeps month ... "Your kids are speaking a language you can't understand!" - Aristotle ...

[Scriptor Ignotus]

3. This Just In!

I'm getting old.

[Fridays Child]

4. "A" replaced by 4? "E" replaced by 3? "T" by 7? I need to lie down.

I'm shocked. :P

[BlooInBloo]

5. Wow. l33t-speak is old - like 5+ years.... Most people I know laugh at those....

... at dinosaurs use it....

For any who might be interested, UrbanDictionary.com has some good info:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=l33t

[FVZA_Colonel]

12. Well, the news media is always 5, sometimes 7 to 10, years behind the times

when it comes to technology in general, and the Internet specifically.

[sui generis]

6. kekeke

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damn now I'll probably get deleted for being incoherent. I predict that Elad will bust me first.

and one last thing:

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This is kind of fun. We may even be able to convince the freepers that the 60v3rnm3n7 m1cr0ch1p5 in their brains are selectively h1d1n6 53cr37 d4574rd|y m3554635 from their prying 3`/3$.

[Greyhound]

10. I certainly hope not, 7[-]47 \/\/[](_)7|]

[karlrschneider]

13. Should I be scared? I never heard of it and I can read what you wrote!

:scared:

[ecstatic]

15. I can put the last paragraph in context, and therefore

it's easy to decipher. I won't even attempt the first few lines. I'm sure I'd be able to figure it out but I just don't have the desire. And that's how kids get the edge over adults. LOL...

I'm amazed that people aren't able to figure out pig latin easily but I think it goes back to hearing/seeing gibberish and not even wanting to try to figure it out.

[sui generis]

18. ha - and my sibs still haven't figured out gibberish

hiddiga - giddigand middigy siddigibs stiddigill hiddigaviddigen't fiddigiggiddigurred giddigout jiddigibiddigeriddigish.

That is one spoken language that is much easier to say than to type.

[Lex]

7. *shakes fist* Those damn kids!

Does this mean they'll stop using "like" every other word?

[MuseRider]

9. WHATevar! n/t

[Bunny]

8. I still don't know what w00t means, so I am hopeless.

Leet speak away, you young whippersnappers. And get off my lawn!

[Sapere aude]

11. No kids here, don't care either.

[Buzz Clik]

14. We warned you, but you wouldn't listen. Now al Qaida has infiltrated our kids.

:mad: :spank: :cry: :hide:

[yellowcanine]

16. Ooh! Next thing ya know they will be using pig latin. When did teenagers become the enemy, for

Christ's sake?

[sakabatou]

17. 3|\/|8r4(3 t3h l33t!