"txt tlk" in other languages?

[NanaoThrowsPetals]

I realize that we use English on here, but I was wondering about "txt tlk" in other languages. Actually, beyond that: do other languages find chatspeak more/less acceptable? What are some annoying grammar mistakes people make in other languages? I thought it would be interesting to find out. Anyone know?  

[Shigures Editor]

I read somewhere that sometimes Japanese people use numbers in place of words in text messaging (for example, "ni", the Japanese word for "two", is replaced by the number 2). Would that count?

 

[Stormy Snuggles]

Wow.... I can't even think about that being in another language. Makes my brain hurt sad  

[Doppelgaanger]

Well, there are a few in spanish, like the word 'que' is often just written 'k'.  

[Pure_Sango]

Now that I actually think about it, I've never heard "txt tlk" in another language. I know that they use such terms as 'lol' and 'omg' and all that jazz, but I've never seen chatspeak (the occasional error, yes). But I'm only counting on five-year's worth of Dutch and very limited German I know, though, so I might be wrong.  

[Elanchana]

Look at them squirm like worms in mud,
Blaming a ghost who's flesh and blood.
Crossing the line, tossing the dice,
Making decisions and paying the price.

I know some of the French ones, like "g la n" (j'ai la haine, hate) and slt (salut, hi). But yes, French people definitely use chatspeak. I went into a Francophone chatroom on fishing or something and couldn't understand ANYTHING they were saying, even though I'm almost fluent.

If I were really a ghost, my dear,
I'd find a better Hell than here!
-Erik, The Phantom of the Opera, Tom Alonso

 

[The MoUsY spell-checker]

Here's an entry about it on Language Log.  

[Naturally-Obsessive]

It's actually a very interesting question and I've never thought about it.  

[Igdra]

Well, I can say that we do have it in Hungarian ^^ some of them even I don't know =D for example we shorten:
"nem tudom" (I don't know) to "nemtom"
"nem tudok" (I don't know) to "nemtok"
"miért" (why) to "mér" or "mé",
"mi ujság" (whats new) to "mizujs",
"szivesen" (you're welcome, or my pleasure) to "szivi",
"tényleg" (really) to "télleg"
"megyek" (I'm leaving) to "meek"
"vagy" (or) to "v"
"hogy" (err...therefore or something along those lines =P) to "h"
"szóval" (therefore again) to "szal"
"valószínüleg" (most likely) to "valszeg"
"körülbelül" (about) to "kb"
"tudod" (you know) to "tod"
"aranyos" (cute) to "ari"
"és a többi" (and so on) to "stb"
"mindegy" (whatever) to "mind1" (egy = one)
"szerintem" (in my opinion) to "sztem"
"köszönöm" (thank you) to "köszi"
"maximum" (maximum) to "max"
"légy szíves" (please) to "légyszi"
"vagyok" (I am) to "vok"

Anything that starts with "vala" (some?) like "valamilyen" , "valaki" (somebody), "valaha", "valamerre" (in some direction), "valahol" (somewhere) to "vmilyen", "vki", "vhol" and so on.

And there are some shortenings in school stuff too like
"dolgozat" (test) to "doga"
"témazáró" (this is a type of test that, whatever grade you get, you get two of) to "tz"
"földrajz" (geology) to "föci"
"történelem" (history) to "töri"
"matematika" (math) to "matek"
"biológia" (biology) to "bios"
"testnevelés" (physical education) to "tesi"


And we use "wtf" and "omg" and "lol" and everything as well xD

Gee...I didn't think I would write this much o.o sorry!  

[Fuku Taichou]

I'm sure other languages have it, because there are always abbreviations in every language. It's tough to sort out the abbreviations from the text talk. The changing of "ni" to 2 in Japanese is similar to how people change "to" to 2 in English. I've seen people abbreviate "por que" to "pq" before, I think, but again, that's more of an abbreviation.  

[faeriebread]

I know that in Taiwan, there's a type of "txt tlk", though this example might not really fit. As we all probably know, in Taiwan, people will speak Chinese. Now though, more and more people in Taiwan can speak english. Therfore, sometimes they will used english letters as an abbreviation for chinese words. For example, the word for weird (in pingying), qi guai, is often abbreviated to "qg". So they would say someone is weird like this: “我觉得那个人非常奇怪“ which in pingyin would be "wo jue de na ge ren fei chang qg!" which basically means "I think that person is very weird." They'll say qg in english instead of 奇怪 in chinese. I thought that was very interesting. smile  

[Zero J0ker]

ijustcan'tstopafterjustonetaste

I don't know about audibly, but I know that in the Philippines it's used a lot. (People there are so text/cellphone crazy.) This one time I was texting my aunt about how things were back where our houses are (I won't go into detail about the whole situation but basically a bunch of the family [including my immediate family of my mom, sisters, and myself -- my dad didn't come along -- jammed with various other branches] went on a little trip to my grandpa's house and got a flat on the way back. But seeing how it's the Philippines, getting that until control took HOURS. And there was a storm warning. Oh and where we usually stay, there are more than one house for us all xD; ) and her Tagalog-Ilocano-English "txt tlk" was pretty hilarious to read. (x

Glad I was still able to understand it though.

Most of the time they only shorten words in English, though. It's kind of hard when it's in Tagalog, especially with words that have multiple vowels together to string a different meaning. Gets confusing, hehe. Then again, it mostly gets down to the individual person.

thisaceisminetoteaseandplease

 

[Shikaeii]

I only know three ways of typing chatspeak in Korean...

ㅋㅋㅋ (Pronounced as -KKK- or -Kikiki-... Very hard to explain) /ㅎㅎㅎ ( Pronounced as -Huhuhuh- or -Hhh-... Also very hard to pronounce using letters only...) - A sign of laughter, similar to LOL

ㅇㅇ (Pronounced eungeung) - Okay. (KK)  

[Vakruz]

"w" is Japanese's version of our "lol". It's short for "warau", meaning laugh.  

[Starry Phoenix]

Thats a terrifying thought. I cant believe it exists in other languages. I never thought about that.