Chatspeak

Chatspeak, otherwise commonly referred to as l337speak, leetspeak or txtspeak, is a severe problem facing the English language. Chatspeak, essentially, dissolves the normal English language to a basic form, running off of phonetics, numeric sounds and 'unnecessary' vowels and punctuation as a basis for their development. As such, 'love' becomes 'luv', 'great' becomes 'gr8', 'like' becomes 'liek', 'it's' becomes 'itz', 'is' becomes 'iz' and 'adjudicate' becomes 'adjdic8'.

Usually used by fangirls expressing their love for a character, badfics guilty of horrible writing, and hilarious lolcat pictures. Guess which ones aren't condoned by the PPC.