Security At Home > Child Safety A parent's primer to computer slang Understand how your kids communicate online to help protect them Published: February 4, 2005 Related Links • Teen online lingo • Online gaming lingo • Netiquette 101 ​ ​​​​While it's important to respect your children's privacy, understanding what your teenager's online slang means and how to decipher it is important as you help guide their online experience. While it has many nicknames, information-age slang is commonly referred to as leetspeek, or leet for short. Leet (a vernacular form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang...