OT: lart, l33t (was [Evolution] UI choices)

[Eric Lambart <ximian nomeaning net>]

Tee hee.  "l33t" is characteristic of the way some (generally young)
nerds like to write things, because they think it's cool.  In fact they
think it makes them "elite", hence "leet", transliterated to "l33t".  I
used it only with great sarcasm.

If you go to your google preferences page:
http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en
...and select "Hacker" as the "Interface Language", you will see more
"l33t speak" than I hope you will ever have to read in your lifetime
elsewhere.

LART stands for "Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool", in other words some
way of punishing user's stupidity, usually used by the impatient and
irritable.  The ever-handy GNOME panel dictionary applet, "gdict", has a
decent definition of LART.  I won't bother posting it here.

--Eric

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:48, rfoster columco com wrote:
> Ok,
> can you please clarify :
> > enough of a "l33t geek" to "lart" folks who do it.
>
> This "lart" thing has come up several times and I am lost.   WTF is a
> "133t"?
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