txtspeak
LOL and BRB
Txtspeak is the abbreviated writing style that emerged from mobile phone text messaging, where character limits and tiny keypads encouraged shortcuts: "u" for you, "2" for to/too, "lol" for laughing out loud, "brb" for be right back.
The style has migrated to social media and casual online communication: Her emails are impossible to read—pure txtspeak.
Also spelled text speak or textspeak.
Abbreviated writing system
- abbreviationShortened word form
- acronymWord made from initials
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
- informalRelaxed, not official
casual · quick · efficient · compressed · truncated · phonetic · vowelless · lowercase
Mobile text protocol
- messagingSending written digital communications
- chatInformal verbal exchange
- TwitterMicroblogging social network
- WhatsAppMobile messaging platform
Snapchat · Instagram · TikTok · Discord · iMessage · Facebook · Messenger · DM
shorthand
Abbreviated writing system
- abbreviationShortened word form
- acronymWord made from initials
- slangInformal in-group vocabulary
informal · casual · quick · efficient · compressed · truncated · phonetic · vowelless · lowercase · uncapitalized
SMS
Mobile text protocol
- messagingSending written digital communications
- chatInformal verbal exchange
- TwitterMicroblogging social network
WhatsApp · Snapchat · Instagram · TikTok · Discord · iMessage · Facebook · Messenger · DM · comments
millennial
Concerning thousand-year cycles
viral · trendy · slang · evolving · generational · contemporary · modern · informal · peer · subcultural
LOL
Internet amusement abbreviation
BTW · IMO · LMAO · SMH · ROFL · FYI · NVM · IRL · GOAT · FOMO
- dialectsregional dialect, local dialect, patois, vernaculars, vernacular
- language varietiesdialect, idiolect, sociolect, vernacular, accent
txtspeakformal writing
Polished, structured text
proper English · academic writing · professional writing · business English · Queen's English
text, texts, texted, texting, texter, texters, textual, speak, speaks