chatspeak
nounEtymology
From chat + -speak.
Definitions
The blend of informal language, conventional abbreviations and emoticons typical of…
The blend of informal language, conventional abbreviations and emoticons typical of chatrooms.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for chatspeak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA