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01 March 2008

L33t text in c0l0r!

post by: dabitch at: 04:59 | 18 comments

hee

posted by taz 01 March | 05:40

Ahem ...

Way to go, me3dia.

posted by essexjan 01 March | 06:00

Ooh. What an odd, fun hack.

Quick list of words in the linux "american-english" dict file I have handy that meet the requirements without any 1337 substitution:

#accede
#beaded
#bedded
#beefed
#cabbed
#dabbed
#decade
#deeded
#deface
#efface
#facade

I need to work in some substitution rules and build up a real vocabulary here.

posted by cortex 01 March | 11:27

(Interesting note: pure-letter words are, by circumstance, all very faint and pastel. You've got to snick in some odd-digit numerics replacements if you want to bring out bring out some vibrance.)

posted by cortex 01 March | 11:29

There must be more but i can't look for them now.

posted by ethylene 01 March | 11:50

CRAZY WORDLIST ACTION FUNTIME WOO

posted by cortex 01 March | 12:42

oh this is awesome! :) I'm glad you're having so much fun with it!

posted by dabitch 01 March | 15:57

Well, now that cortex has saved us the trouble of looking up usable words, all we can do now is play with them.

posted by wendell 01 March | 16:17

Going through the list, it dawned on me that the nick of a MeFite/blogger (and my editor at msnbc.com) GaelFC is l33t-textable.

But then, so is the MeChan who posted this - almost. One too many letters and that letter is untransl33table.

posted by wendell 01 March | 16:24

Cortex, your list is not really complete.
It has BEETLE but not BEATLE.
And BOOBED but not BOOBIE.

And I'm only through the B's...

Yes, I'm an addict.

posted by wendell 01 March | 16:32

You know, if Victor Borge were alive today, he'd find some way to put this into his act, right between Inflationary Language and Phonetic Punctuation. Then again, I expect Randall Munroe of xkcd to have a field day with this.

posted by wendell 01 March | 16:37

Yeah, using the standard linux wordlist is going to leave off a lot of perfectly good proper-name and slang action, but I didn't feel like trying to hunt for wordlists this morning.

posted by cortex 01 March | 17:16

Some names and words I just HAD to see the colors of:
(hey)ABBOTT (the dude)ABIDES ATTICA
ATTILA(hi, hun!) BACALL (rocky)BALBOA
BIBLES BIDETS BIGOTS(slightly redneck)
BLOODS(not red) BOOGIE CABBIE(kinda yellow)
CATTLE CLOSED COITAL

whew... and so many more... I gotta get a life.

posted by wendell 01 March | 17:44

But then, so is the MeChan who posted this - almost. One too many letters and that letter is untransl33table.

That's some kind of.. beige? I'm never beige! What about DA817c+h / apricotish? Hmmm. No wait DA81C7+H real pink!. *phew* As long as it ain't beige. 6AE1FC was far better.

posted by dabitch 01 March | 18:04

Debbie does Dallas made me laugh out loud. genius!

posted by dabitch 01 March | 18:05

LASSIE is a COLLIE
GOLDIE is not gold
ASSETS and DEBITS

posted by wendell 01 March | 19:03

and for you, dabitch... ADSBAD or BADADS?

posted by wendell 01 March | 19:06

HA HA HA HA! Funny.

posted by dabitch 02 March | 05:20

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