Do other languages besides English have short-hand "chat speak", too?
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I go on forums in Spanish sometimes, so I know they have chat speak. I can recognize the easy things like 2 for "tu" and the substitution of "ke" for "que", but anything beyond that just confuses me.
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All living languages have a slang. But I strongly disagree that slang bastardises a language. Quite on the contrary, it enriches it. Certain ideas cannot possibly be accurately said without using slang. For example, try using any expression in academic English to say "son of a bítch". Anything you find will be a washed-out version of the original expression.
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Gaim supports multiple chat protocols like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, etc. Quite versatile, but not the best.  I think it doesn't have webcam or voice capabilities yet, but I could be wrong.
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Program I used to use for English was "Dragon Point and Speak".\nNot sure if it does other languages, but worked very good for English!\nThe link point to a old version, but it will put you on the right track.\nOther one was called "Dragon Naturally Speaking"
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I am in the electronics business an have had dealings with many different cultures and languages.  The one thing I have been surprised with is how many people to whom English is a second( or third) language can have such great difficulty pronouncing words in English can perfectly pronoun slang and curse words.  For example, many Koreans I know cannot pronounce F's and P's correctly but can say Mother *ucker perfectly.  Interesting.
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English, Spanish, and just the tiniest bit of French
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I believe chat2.0 is java based, and yahoo took away the java support about a month ago.l
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Well.. I'd say that it's just a part of evolving language..\n\nWhile chattimg and similar stuff, what ppl want is a quick exchange of ideas and opinions and being grammatically correct is not taht important than conveying the snese..\n\nWho knows with the ionternet becoming more commonplace than ever these days, tommorrow these words may be accepted by the Oxford ictionary as well.. Already there is a large num of abbreviations for which we know the meaning, but we may not be knowing the expanded form.. ( EX RSVP,OK )\n\nSo keep working on these short forms..
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Yes there a ton of different forms of sing language.  In fact just in the US there are multiple kinds (one which is more of a signed English another ASL is a completely different language and way of thinking then English.  It was developed by a French teacher of deaf students and based on his French Sing Language).  Verbal languages are not equivilant in the sense that they are not literal translations from one to another but they show different ways of thinking and different perspectives of the world.  The same is true of sign language.   Also unlike one might believe signed languages are usually not a direction equivalant of the verbal language of the area they are used in but are another language completely.
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Yes, in country's speaks Spanish use sing "Spoken English"\nor "English Spoken" last is most use.\n\n     "ENGLISH SPOKEN"
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Since Yahoo! Answers it's only at it's beta phase, once they release it completely they will adapt it to other languages. I had no luck trying http://respuestas.yahoo.com url.
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Actually, many languages are spoken with much less mouth opening or lip movement than English.  When I teach ESL pronunciation, one of the things I have to get students to work on is opening their mouths more and making the lip shapes that are used for English.
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English, Spanish, french
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Using a chat program.
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these words are what you call "chatspeak". These are shortened versions of phrases or words that are used for faster and easier typing. LOL means laugh out loud, Rofl means roll on the floor laughing, wtf means "what the ....", jk means joke
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by the way, if you check this link it will give you some others\nhttp://www.techdictionary.com/chat.html
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I'm guessing you are talking about Messenger/chat jargon.  \n\nThat IS probably more annoying than using the cell phone, which was my first guess.