Chatspeak

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

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

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary