A Guide To Online Gaming
Gaming Lingo
If you’ve just submerged yourself in the world of online gaming it can seem as though everyone is speaking a whole different language. English is the main language spoken online, however there are hundreds of words that gamers use that will just make no sense what so ever to new comers.
While gaming, people need to communicate quickly and accurately. This has led to a huge variety of different words that you won’t see or hear anywhere else except online. One of the most common things that you’ll see in communication online is leetspeek. Leetspeak is also often used by internet trolls (someone who makes a nuisance of themselves intentionally to annoy others). Leetspeak is where letters are substituted for numbers and other characters to create something that resembles a word or letter. For example the word “the” could be wrote in leetspeak as, “t|-|3? where the number “3? is used to replace the letter “e” and “|-|” is used to replace the letter “h”. This stuff is generally easy to read as it was created with the idea of substituting letters with things that resemble letters. Another typical example of leetspeak is where instead of using letters, letters are spelt out phonetically. For example the common abbreviation of the saying, “Oh my god” online is “omg”. In leetspeak this can be typed as, “Oh Em Gee” where each letter is just spelt out. This is commonly used for emphasis or whilst mocking someone or something.
Grammar and misspelling are often changed in order to make something into leetspeak. Although not always, this bad grammar and bad spelling can sometimes be used for emphasis, irony or to mock somebody. For example, if in a game somebody was winning because they were cheating, a phrase such as, “Hay guise, dis guy iz so gud,” could be used. This could also be typed completely in uppercase again for emphasis or to purposely annoy somebody. Uppercase is also sometimes used in conjunction with the number 1, this is used to mock someone who acts childish, or in a non-intelligent manner, to imply that they are not able to press the ’shift’ key or turn ‘capslock’ off. An example of this would be, “OMG ROFL J00 GOT OWNED!!!111!!!1.” To further mock someone, these numbers are sometimes even spelt out, again to imply that somebody is not very intelligent. Instead of ending in, “!!!111!!!1? it could end with, “!!!11!!!!eleven!!one!1?. Another common phrase is, “All your base are belong to us.” This phrase has become hugely popular and even spawned its own techno songs and various mixes after appearing in the game, ‘Zero Wing’ which was badly translated into english. Other common misspellings are ‘teh’ meaning ‘the’ and ‘pwn’ meaning ‘own’.
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