Japanese Leet
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Japanese Leet, usually known as the Kusachu Language or Kusachu Leet (クサチュー語 or 勹廾千ｭ―言吾 Kusachū-go) is a form of Leet enciphering for Japanese. This form of Japanese is written with a set of characters that replace common Hiragana, Katakana and some Kanji characters which look similar to them. As with Hong Kong Leet, Kusachu Leet is primarily used in Online forums, such as 2channel (sometimes known as 2ch).
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[edit] Dialects of Japanese Leet
Within Japanese Leet, there are many "dialects"; that is, different styles of writing. Distinctions between dialects are not immediately easy to make, they are usually distinguished by the ways in which the characters are substituted or replaced. By the same token, Japanese Leet, like Leet in other languages, may be disliked by non-users of the cipher. The 2channel style is less corrupted than other forms of Japanese Leet, but it encompasses a larger novel vocabulary.
Some examples of Japanese Leet:
| Original | Converted | Meaning |
| フリー百科事典ウィキペディア | ┐リ―百科事典ゥィ‡∧・〒"ィ了 | The Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia |
| あやしい | ぁゃιぃ | strange |
| 爆死 | 火暴歹ヒ | die in an explosion |
[edit] Japanese leet laugh
Back in the dawn of commercial Massively Multiplayer Online gaming, most computer games didn't support Japanese characters in game chat. The lack of Japanese characters created a problem when a player wanted to express laughter online. Beginning around 1997, on Battle.net, laughter was expressed as "w", abbreviated from "warai" (笑い - laugh) or "waratta" (笑った - I've laughed), meaning laugh and/or laughter in Japanese. Later, in 1998, the "warai" and "waratta" were shortened to a simple "w" or "ｗ" (ｗ is w in Japanese 2byte characters).
- Example: those crybabies sucks W!
To express farther leetness, you may add more w's, capitals may be used randomly, and misspelled e (lying next to the w key) could be placed between the w's.
- Example: those crybabies sucks wwwww or those crybabies sucks WWWwwWWEeEWｗっうぇｗｗwwWｗｗ
Hardcore gamers and newer users tend to overuse w's. Some may use "w" at the end of every sentence, annoying other players. Ragnarok Online players and Final Fantasy XI players are known to use "w" to its very maximum. Sometimes a simple "w" will be given as an answer to other player's comment, meaning anything from a simple nod to a warm approval, yawn, snicker, a healthy laugh, or a sarcastic and sly smile.
[edit] Similarities to Gyaru-moji
Kusachu also resembles (to the point of being almost the same) ギャル文字 (gyaru-moji, "girls' alphabet"), which is common among high-school aged girls. In 2ch slang, words are written using their homonyms (an abbreviation process similar to "you" => "u"), e.g. "ドキュン" (dokyun) => "DQN". In gyaru-moji, characters are composed using (sometimes very vaguely) similar-looking characters or their components, e.g. 話 => 言舌, し => ∪, キ => ≠, ハ => / \. Kusachu could be seen as a selective mixture of bohramt.
[edit] Etymology
The etymology of Kusachu derives from the words 腐れ (kusare, meaning "gone bad" or "rotten") and 厨房 (chūbō, "kitchen"), which is pronounced the same as 中坊 ("junior high kid", 中=middle and 坊=kid in this context). 厨房 is itself "2ch slang" for "dimwit".
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