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Certain factions maintain that "true" Leetspeak is spelled correctly, with the exceptions described above. They do not consider the use of extreme short forms (such as "''b''" for "be", or "''u''" for "you") as Leetspeak; instead, they refer to it by such terms as "[[AOL speak]]". This is because they associate such habits with users who use [[ISPs]] like [[AOL]], which is associated with "[[n00b|noobness]]" and therefore not considered "elite." The chief difference between Leetspeak and AOL speak is that Leetspeak has the goal of obfuscating traditional written language while in AOL speak the goal is primarily to shorten words (and therefore allow "n00bs" to be able to communicate more quickly). Another convention sometimes associated with Leetspeak or Internet chatting is capitalizing every other letter (LiKe ThIs), sometimes called ''[[StudlyCaps|studlycaps]]'' or ''stickycaps''. A similar habit involves capitalizing every [[consonant]] (LiKe THiS).

I am the elite, i am the greatness, i am Xero!

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