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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
I agree mostly but with a quibble: some folks (young teens?) appear to use this form of writing intentionally, even when it would be easier to just 'spell it out'. So, more like Pig Latin for some. "fOR TEh LULZ" crowd. I know you've met them.
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True, but that's not really text speech. It's not a compacted form made to be faster to type, as you note, it actually is more complicated. Rather than being fast to type in, it marks the user as one of the "cool kids". Of course, this depends on a very
particular definition of cool. Back in the days of BBSes, this was called "leet speak", for the so-called "elites" those whose claim to fame was how fast they could get their "warez".