The solution is to abbreviate, contract and condense. Here's a short glossary of chatspeak A guide to 21st century jargon For linguistic purists, the world at the dawn of the 21st century is, well, a mess. Management consultants, marketing experts, lawyers and, especially in recent years, techno-geeks have cluttered American English with shorthand indecipherable to all but insiders. It's far from the first time a mysterious lexicon has bloomed. There's already medicalese, legalese and Pentagonese.
Sports jargon can be a cipher, along with that the personal ads and the game of bridge.
And don't think this new lingo is limited to teens. Plenty of adults talk the talk, or type the type, all day at work. America Online's Instant Messenger system appears to be the biggest. But the language also is used in the more public chat venues, where chatters from all over the world come and go and the talk scrolls by like endless movie credits. While many adults argue that they regularly use the argot for business and pleasure and that a lot of the terms have been rattling around the Net for years, it seems best suited to the rapid-fire lifestyle of youth.