Chatspeak

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

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

Our students are using Internet shorthand or chatspeak in their online yakking in chat rooms and e-mails.

I don't mind saying 'u' instead of 'you' so much, mostly because I've become numb to it, and some people do it because it's 'cool' to speak chatspeak.

Is it too much to imagine a Bible written entirely in the language of tomorrow: Internet chatspeak and text message shorthand?