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Originally Posted by Jordan  Although the L33T speak does tend to get a trifle annoying at times. (End by tht i mean teh txting shrt hnd that mst peeps seem 2 like 2 tok n.) |
Heh, that's because texting with a numeric keypads is the most popular form of electronic communication for young folks. Email is something you send to parents.
If I had to push a button up to three times to generate one character I'd be using short hand too. It isn't surprising that it carries over even when a full keyboard is available. Between that and in-game chat (where typing grammatically correct sentences like results in dirtnaps) that l33tspeak shorthand doesn't look more natural when using any text collaboration mechanism.