On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote:

> That said, replacing letters with numbers is actually called "leet speak",
> not "lite speak" -- aka "l33t" or "1337". It comes from a
> shortening/misspelling (of course) of the word elite.

And you'll notice my original post stated it was 'lite speak with the
apostrophe to indicate the missing e in the world elite.

Isn't language fun?

-- 
Kevin M. (RPCV)

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