Your challenge is to write a program to translate (English) leetspeak/lolspeak/txtspk into normal English. Your program should read from standard input and output to standard output, unless your language does not support these.
You may use a file containing a list of words in the English language, separated by new lines. It should be called W
and will be located in the same directory as your program. (On GNU/Linux systems and possibly others, you can make W
a link to /usr/share/dict/words
) The list doesn't have to be all-lowercase, you can use it to determine whether words should have capitals.
This is based on a now-deleted question posted by Nikos M. which could be found here. This is not a duplicate as this original question was closed and did not receive any answers, because there was no winning criterion and the user was unwilling to put one in.
Scoring
The scoring is a bit complicated!
Your score is
(leet items + bonuses) * 10 / (code length)
Highest score wins.
Your program doesn't have to be and probably can't be perfect, but the more accurate it is, the more bonuses it gets!
Since $
can mean both s
and S
, you get a bonus of 5 points per leet item for deciding whether it should have a capital letter (i.e. capital letters at the start of sentences).
You get a further bonus of 5 points per leet item for implementing proper nouns (words which always have capitals) - the way this works is that you would look through the word list, make the output capitalised if only a capitalised version is present in the list, and if both versions are there, just guess.
If a character has two meanings (e.g. 1
can mean L
or I
), you get 20 points per leet item for only picking those translations of the item which make real English words - use the wordlist for this. If more than one translation of a leet item makes a real English word, you can arbitrarily pick one of the valid translations and still get the bonus.
List of Leet
These are the leet items which you may implement. You don't have to implement all of them, but the more you add, the more points you get.
You cannot ever score points by translating an item or character to itself. This rule overrides any mistakes I might have made in the list.
It's tempting to do a simple tr
or s/.../.../g
. The real challenge is to determine which of multiple meanings could and couldn't be correct, using the wordlist.
Leet Items (each of these adds 1 to leet items
in the formula)
$ -> s,S ( -> c,C 5 -> s,S @ -> a,A 4 -> a,A 3 -> e,E 7 -> t,T + -> t,T # -> h,H teh -> the 'd -> ed pwnd -> pwned pwnt -> pwned k,K -> OK kk -> OK 0[zero]-> o,O y,Y -> why 4 -> for txt -> text dafuq -> what the f**k /\,^ -> a,A \/ -> v,V d00d -> dude n00b -> newbie \/\/ -> w,W 8 -> b,B |_| -> u,U |-| -> h,H Я -> r,R j00 -> you joo -> you vv,VV -> w,W tomoz -> tomorrow |< -> k,K [),|) -> d,D <3 -> love >< -> x,X 10100111001 -> leet (binary representation of 1337) 2 -> to,too ur,UR -> your,you're (no need to correctly distinguish between the two) u,U -> you 8 -> -ate-,8 x,X -> -ks-,-cks- z,Z -> s,S 1 -> i,I,l,L ! -> i,I,! c,C -> see,C,sea b,B -> be,B,bee [accented letter] -> [non-accented form] (score 1 per accented letter supported) &,7 -> and,anned,ant (may be used in the middle of a word)
Harder "Leet": score 30 points for leet items
each
!!!1!!1-> !!!!!!! (translate 1's in a sequence of !'s into !'s) !!!one!-> !!!!! !eleven-> !!!
Examples
These are examples of what a program which implements all the leet characters above, and some of the bonuses, might be able to do:
Example sentence: |-|3 15 $|_|(# @ n00b
= He is such a newbie
Leet-based censorship: $#!+
= s**t
Extreme leet: \/\/ 1 |< 1 P 3 [) 1 A
= Wikipedia
-xor suffix: H4X0R
= hacker
More extreme leet: @1\/\/4Y5 p0$+ ur n3VV qu35710nz 1n teh $&80x
= Always post your new questions in the sandbox
Example Scoring
Bash, 10 characters, 3 items, no bonuses:
tr 137 let
This scores ( 1 * 3 ) * 10 / 10 = 3
.
tr
ors/.../.../g
. Just translating things like that would make a boring challenge, so we need to reward better translations which use the wordlist \$\endgroup\$sed
script.) \$\endgroup\$sed
script, I mean more than a simples/.../.../g
, but a file that is parsed and executed bysed
itself. As terse as the language is, it might be a decent golfable language... \$\endgroup\$sed
scripts are also fine and could be very interesting, they could do very well on this due to the short substitution syntax, you might be able to read from the wordlist, either with GNU extensions or by usingsed
as part of a larger Bash program \$\endgroup\$