Textspeak

//ˈtɛkst.spik// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The abbreviated, simplified form of language used in text messages, which often elides vowels and omits punctuation and capitalisation. informal, uncountable

    "For 40 years the society has championed good English – and hasn't been above the occasional criticism of the Queen's own standards of English – but it has finally conceded it cannot survive in the era of textspeak and Twitter."

Synonyms

All synonyms
textesetextese

Example

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"For 40 years the society has championed good English – and hasn't been above the occasional criticism of the Queen's own standards of English – but it has finally conceded it cannot survive in the era of textspeak and Twitter."

Etymology

From text + -speak.

Related phrases

text message

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