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textspeak noun[ U ] uk /ˈtekst.spiːk/ us /ˈtekst.spiːk/ the kind of language and spelling, often containing short forms of words, that people use when they are writing text messages: 火星文(短信用语) It was all in textspeak, saying things like "I am sorry 4 U."全都用短信用语写成,比如 I am sorry 4 U。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Forms of the English language art aught Australian English BBC English British English Brummie Canadian English cockney rhyming slang elf Estuary English lavender language Liverpudlian mockney Scots Scottish English Scouse Singlish the Queen's English
Examples of textspeak textspeak However, it would be interesting to see if textspeak sentence structure shows up in talk or formal writing. From TIME My middle school students absolutely use textspeak in their compositions. From TIME People know when textspeak is appropriate and when it isn't. From TIME This one is short and sweet and provides a nice precedent of textspeak. From WIRED These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |