Roedy Green said:
Netspeak and Textspeak are quite different sorts of animals. NetSpeak
in a list of acronyms.. It could be likened to occupational jargon.
Textspeak is a sort of shorthand that requires effort to decode
considering the complete context. It can't simply be memorised.
By the way what does "nd" mean in textspeak? Sorry I don't have a
context. It was just one of the words I collected for the sample
dictionary.
Since phonetics (pronunciation) is usually the
kee (i.e., key) to textspeak, I wood (i.e., would)
guess "nd" is end. George Bernard Shaw had
a campaign to switch English to phonetic spelling.
It bombed out because SO many books were
spelled conventionally, that it would be a problem
to make the conversion.
George