SOme abbreviations I don't undertsand

[CGoodness]

there are some abbreviations that people use on the site that I don't understand.

They are:

1337

lolz

n00b


there are more that i cant think of right now

[Elentari]

*shakes head* i hate it when people say those...makes me wonder if they actually say them when theyre talking to people:S

[CGoodness]

well, can you tell me what they mean?

[Da__Ad__Man]

nOOb means like a new person i think and lolz all i know is lol, that means laugh out loud.

[CGoodness]

what about 1337 like 1337 legit or something

theres people that say "I'm tired of these 1337 legits." sooo?..

[umbrella]

1337 translates into
leet
leet translates into
elite

as in,
pro.
godly.
insane.
http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[CGoodness]

how stupid...

[umbrella]

hehehe..
just weird, I figured you'd know those abbreviations... I mean you have 500 posts..
oh well...
missed the memo?

[CGoodness]

lol i figure out most of it myself and i dont see alot of it often since ive played online 3 times since i started PSO (my friend recently got online and i cant cuz i got aol)

[umbrella]

hehe weird.. 1337 is used alot these days..

[Jehosaphaty]

i believe that ness sports a sig with a nifty 1337 quote about his mad sword skills. haha, but n00b is a clueless new person.

[Night_Star]

there is one that i dont understand what it is, that wasnt mentioned
what is IMO?
ive seen a lot of people say it, i just dont know what it means

[umbrella]

In my opinion
or IMHO

In my humble opinion

[Xairin]

Well, leet or "1337" (shudders at having actually typed that) comes from haxor, which is a real language my friends, oh yes indeed. Haxor was originally developed to create passwords that weren't as easily cracked as say, to pull up a movie reference, 'god' or 'sex' or some lame shit like that. Basically haxor is either numeric or alpha numeric representation of real words. For instance Hello translates to 43110. There are a few different variations of haxor, one is visual representation, there are other variations where each letter is assigned a number, such as A - 01, B- 02, C - 03.. or A - 26, B - 25, C - 24. Anyway.. to make a long story short, some dumb little hacker kids got the idea to make a chat language with haxor and call it Leet, and dubbed themselves {braces self) 1337 H4X0Rz. That's the basic gist anyway.