Hi Joshua!
Yup, now I know who won the battle of Jericho!

Interesting, also that the "erilar", the elite hackers
of their time, used a kind of pick axe, to hack the
runes into the stone.

(and Joshua, sending out his spies, used a the pick axes
as secret weapon, to undermine the walls of that city,
so that a mere vibration would cause everything to crash.)

Perhaps you can now help me to prove that Loki was
the head of a race of hackers who arrived on Earth
from another planet - once upon a time..

At any rate, I wish to congratulate you upon your solution
of the riddle. That man knows to read runes !

Xigung

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Tenpenny <josh@...> wrote:
> xigung translated:
> >>1 4m l33t h4x0r 4nd g0t m4d sk1llz ph33r m3!
>
> as:
> > I Am Lex Luthor, and got mAd skills -- Fear me!
>
>
> Close! However, logic cannot explain the cultural elements, and a
> translation based only on one inscription is a tricky thing.
>
> Using the method you developed with the rest of the piece, "l33t h4x0r"
> would be "leet haxor". Clearly nonsense in standard English and all
> 'known' dialects, but examination of further examples would show that
> the phrase is a common self identification in these inscriptions. The
> writers refer to themselves as "l33t h4x0r5" or even more
indecipherably
> "1337 #4X0!2$" and the text itself is "l33t5p33k". Further study of
> texts would yield phonetic rules showing that "x" is substituted for
"k"
> sounds, '0' is used for a range of vowels, and "h" is occasionally
added
> to words starting with a vowel. In this case, however, the "h" is
> clearly of an older derivation, not an addition, and the word is
> properly translated as "hacker".
>
> The meaning of 'l33t' is obviously an adjective, something like "great"
> or "superior", but the exact derivation could remain a mystery unless
> one found a document where an contemporary outsider explained that
> 'leet' is a short form of "elite", and is among this population the
most
> common way to extol one's virtues or status in any field.
>
> The careful cultural observer would note that although some words and
> features found their way into more common usage, this dialect was used
> only by a subset of the "Hacker" population, an apparently
persecuted or
> at least disliked minority, involved heavily in the illegal trade of
> pornography and proprietary information, theft of communication
services
> and electronic funds, and the manufacture of illegal drugs and weapons.
> Even the careful researcher would likely be unable to determine what
> percentage of the highly fantastic claims of this minority culture were
> entirely fictional, created to add to the status to those written about
> rather than to provide accurate documentation for future generations.
>
>
> -- Joshua