[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

hakspek /hak'speek/ n. a shorthand method of spelling found on many
   british academic bulletin boards and talker systems. syllables and
   whole words in a sentence are replaced by single ascii characters the
   names of which are phonetically similar or equivalent, while multiple
   letters are usually dropped. hence, `for' becomes `4'; `two', `too', and
   `to' become `2'; `ck' becomes `k'. "before i see you tomorrow" becomes
   "b4 i c u 2moro". first appeared in london about 1986, and was probably
   caused by the slowness of available talker systems, which operated on
   archaic machines with outdated operating systems and no standard methods
   of communication.

   hakspek almost diappeared after the great bandwidth explosion of the
   early 1990s, as fast internet links wiped out the old-style talker
   systems. however, it has enjoyed a revival in another medium - the short
   message service sms associated with gsm cellphones. sms sends are
   limited to a maximum of 160 characters, and typing on a cellphone keypad
   is difficult and slow anyway. there are now even published paper
   dictionaries for sms users to help them do hakspek-to-english and
   vice-versa.

   see also talk mode.


see also:
talker system talk mode 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

hakspek
     
         /hak'speek/ a shorthand method of spelling found on
        many british academic bulletin boards and chat systems.
        syllables and whole words in a sentence are replaced by single
        ascii characters the names of which are phonetically similar
        or equivalent, while multiple letters are usually dropped.
        hence, "for" becomes "4"; "two", "too", and "to" become "2";
        "ck" becomes "k".  "before i see you tomorrow" becomes "b4 i c
        u 2moro".  first appeared in london about 1986, and was
        probably caused by the slowness of available talk systems,
        which operated on archaic machines with outdated operating
        systems and no standard methods of communication.  has become
        rarer since.
     
        see also chat, b1ff, asciibonics.
     
        jargon file
     
        1998-01-25
     
     
see also:
chat ascii talk operating systems b1ff asciibonics 
jargon file 

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