What is Internet Slang?

Internet Slang is the language Internet users have coined and popularized, the purpose of which is to save keystrokes and to express what they want to say in less letters (or words). Internet Slang is called in many terms: Internet slang, Internet language, Netspeak, Chatspeak, Leetspeak, Computer Language, 1337 (or leet) are some of the mail terms to refer to the language used by netizens. Internet Slang is widley used in SMS, Text Messages, and Instant Messaging conversations.

Some of the examples of Internet Slang are using “IMHO” to mean “In My Honest Opinion”, “BTW” to mean “By The Way”, “BRB” to mean “Be Right Back” etc. Internet Slang mostly contain Acronyms, keyboard symbols, and shortened words. There are many kinds in this type of language. “Leet” is one type of Internet Slang. In this type words are written in letters: example: “Monkey” could be written as “m0nk3y” also the name of this slang “Leet” itself could be written as “1337″. Although Internet Slang is highly informal just as all the other types of slang, it is higly used among netizens.