Coming straight from SMS language, this is a way of replacing entire words or bits of words by their phonetic equivalent embodied into single letters or figures and it is often fou… See more

1337speak consists of replacing a letter by its closest figure's look-alike, or by using various keyboard signs such as "+", "(", "[", "/", "_" and more to recreate that letter. A Russian for… See more

More than a slang, it symbolizes a type of language, often pointed as being used by teenagers, consisting of the same letter in a word repeated several times for emphasis. Other spelli… See more

Acronyms, the art of creating a neology through the association of letters and initials between them, exist on the Internet since the late 1980s. Starting with LOL, from laughi… See more

The Internet is also the cradle of many expressions whose complete meanings can only be acknowledge and understood because of or in relation to the Internet. While som… See more