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[snugbug42]

a thought-- the use of chatting/texting speech is the foil of creating a creole... the youngest generation is paring down the language to what they consider the essentials, creating a dialect of sorts. In creating a creole, the youngest speakers of a pidgen fill in grammar regulations and conjunctives, where in text speech, those are the first

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[keety531]

So: On the subject of chatting, which is both my bane and my loving mistress.
Chat/text speak was, for a long time, an encouragement of the creation of a bastard language, you are correct. And yet, I see that less and less now, in media (commericals, movies, online ads, etc.), in my personal life, in stories. This language of 'u2', 'ttyl', and all of the associated, irritating things like them, is slowly dying.
The reason is such: When texting became a phenom first, it was limited by the hardware employed. The numberpad of a phone is, you may know, not very large, and trying to type a full message using one is absolutely infuriating.
However, in the past 5 years, blackberries and smartphones have flooded the market. Starting with the Sidekick, phones began to employ full qwerty kepboards, with a lot of power under the hood for text-heavy programs. As such, the texter of today often types as quickly on their phone as they do on their computer.
This is not to say the language is not drifting in such a direction, only that we are pulled back from the tweeting precipice which was so dangerously apparent a few years ago. Our language is reverting to its previous state. What technology has birthed, it is also slowly strangling.