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For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.
is just wrong. The two have nothing to do with each other.
"It's amusing, but it's limited to a small community and unlikely to spread and unlikely to last," said Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill.
That phrase, and all else "leet, |33+, l33t" etc. jumped the shark years ago. It was fresh in the 80s and very early 90s, but soured pretty quick. These young whippersnappers with their AOL Instant Messengers and their texting don't even know where the term came from.
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