Rad-typing accessibility helper.

Rad-typing is a not-unfrequent phenomenon in the Internet 
text-oriented sector: Email lists, newsgroups, chatrooms, etc. 
It is mostly unaccessible to the blind (and the dyslectic), 
since it freely exchanges letters based on graphical similarities. 
It also plays on simple homophony a lot - which will exclude 
many deaf.

Here are some graphically similar characters which are common 
in Internet rad-typing. I use small 'i', capital 'L', and 
small 'o' to enhance legibility.

0 - o
1 - i
3 - E
4 - A
5 - S 
7 - L
9 - i (only seen this in m9ndfukc output)
! - i
| - L
+ - T

The same sound is spelt variously in different words. 
A small sample of the most commonly used ones:

f - ph
c - k (when pronunciation suggests)
c - s (when pronunciation suggests)
s - z

There are also some words which are homophonous to a single
letter or number:

4 - for
2 - to, too
B - be

On the same tack, there are several silent letters
(in English words), which will occasionally be omitted.

Output from the various m9ndfukc handles (integer / f1f0 / 
=cw4t7abs / netochka nezvanova) takes this game further.
These handles also use some constructs which are modelled on, 
or perversions of programming notation: 

0+0 - no, none
0+1 - one
0+2 - two
_+? - question
! - negation
!= - is not, general non-equality
|| - or
= - is, are 
+ - and

He or she also mixes German, French and Swedish/Danish into 
the English text. For instance, "sug3r", ie, "suger", is the
Swedish direct translation of "sucks". "Tak" means "thanks"
in Danish.


Unfortunately this is not guaranteed to help your understanding 
of the actual content of netochka's posts much...

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jim stevenson wrote:
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> Can any of you explain how to interpret integer's code?
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