Chatspeak

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The blend of informal language, conventional abbreviations and emoticons typical of chatrooms. Internet, informal, uncountable

    "Given that people are trying to speak by writing in real time, chatspeak is infused with extensive abbreviations and there is little punctuation."

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"Imogen of the Internet has created a seminal classification of thirty distinct varieties of chatspeak, some now facing linguistic extinction."

Etymology

From chat + -speak.

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