(informal) Any of a number of different measures of abbreviation used to shorten the length of text messages, such as eliding vowels, forgoing the use of punctuation, representing “you†and “your†as “u†and “urâ€, using “da†(or, rarely “t’â€) in place of “theâ€, and so on. “Textspeak†is often abbreviated to “txtspk†for that very motive, or for humorous, self-referential effect.
2012, June 4, Lewis Smith, Queen's English Society says enuf is enough, innit?, For 40 years the society has championed good English – and hasn't been above the occasional criticism of the Queen's own standards of English – but it has finally conceded it cannot survive in the era of textspeak and Twitter.
