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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?

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

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.

Here's an entry about it on Language Log.

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!

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

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)

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