textspeak

English

Etymology

From text +‎ -speak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛkst.spik/

Noun

textspeak (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The abbreviated, simplified form of language used in text messages, which often elides vowels and omits punctuation and capitalisation.
    Synonym: textese
    Hypernym: netspeak
    Coordinate terms: chatspeak, leetspeak
    • 2012 June 4, Lewis Smith, “Queen’s English Society says enuf is enough, innit?: Society formed 40 years ago to protect language against poor spelling and grammar closes because too few people care”, in The Guardian‎[1], London, archived from the original on 10 March 2016:
      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.

See also

  • Appendix:Glossary of textspeak
  • SMS
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