teencode

Vietnamese

Examples
  • mk for mình (“I, me”) (abbreviation)
  • bùn for buồn (“sad”) (omission of character)
  • h4y for hay (“good, interesting”) (substitution)
  • 0 for không (negator) (abbreviation)
  • la for là (“to be”) (omission of diacritical mark)

Alternative forms

  • teen code

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from teen +‎ code.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [tin˧˧ kot̚˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tin˧˧ kok̚˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [tɨn˧˧ kok̚˦˥]
  • Phonetic spelling: tin cốt

Noun

teencode

  1. (neologism) an alternative Vietnamese orthography with extensive use of substitutions, abbreviation, simplification/alternative encoding of diacritics, and intentional distortion of pronunciation, that was once very prevalent in chatrooms, chatboxes and message boards; nowadays it became much less common in its "pure" form, although it left much influence in current Internet messaging orthography

References

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