Day: June 7, 2007

  • Christa is 1337.

    Hey.

    And for real, now.  1337.
    As you all may know (or at least.. maybe.. two of you), Xanga now has a translation project to provide Xanga to people of all languages at translate.xanga.com
    The mission statement on the front page:

    Welcome to the Xanga Translation Project

    Do you think Xanga should be available to people who speak languages other than English? So do we!

    If you speak English but would like to help your friends, family, and
    fellow countrymen experience Xanga in their native languages, you've
    come to the right place.

    -Help others enjoy Xanga in their native languages
    -Foster an international community
    -Translate at your own pace

    Of course, I checked it out in curiosity, and saw some pretty cute languages in the making, i.e. Pirate and Klingon, both having no translations made yet.  I Googled their respective dictionaries and got some results (some.. some), and also saw a 1337 (leet) translation page, much of which (roughly 800 entries) were already translated.  In excitement, I clicked on the link to witness the 1337||355, to be gravely disappointed.

    Fellow online gamers, feel my pain.. it was NIB.  D:  (lol if the writer of those translations were to read this page).  It was totally not completely translated -- as leetnglish (my sad attempt at leet + english, in the fashion of Spanglish) as it gets.  Very restricted translations, limited to altering E to 3, A to 4, O to 0, and L to |.  At that instant, as I stared upon the page of semi-translated words, I was distressed and knew that action had to be taken.  Action against the nib1337.

    However, I had no means to do anything at that instant.  I probably knew just as little 1337 as the wannabe 13373|2, but I was set on it.  Xangans will click on the "1337" option on the translation box, and they will expect mindblowing 1337, not limited omgosh, all the A,E, and Os transformed.  I knew what I had to do.  I wiki'd a 1337 alphabet, and became literate in the hacker-originated language.  Yes, that's right.  I'm now literate (definitely not pro, but literate.  like.. a first grader) in 1337.  And I am currently correcting, gradually and as we speak, the nib translations to the level of 1337||355 that they should be.

    DUN DUN DUN.  Lol um.  More on more important parts of my life later.

    Today's lesson: ...Lol all I learned is 1337.  LOL LET'S HAVE THE LESSON IN 1337.  Kay: [)373|2//!||47!0|| !5 |<3`/.  :OOO

    hopefully, you feel the same

    Bye for now.