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Nov 22 2005
File Under: Other

The Evolution of Chatspeak

  • By Webmonkey Staff

You know all those little abbreviations we use in chats? Also known as chatspeak?

This thread at Typophile entertains the idea of these chatspeak acronyms eventually becoming bona fide characters in the English language. And what would they look like exactly?


That’s a nice one. Gotta hand it to these type junkies, they know how to dish out some good font.

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