What about texting

"Wud u lk 2 meet me 4 brgr 2nite?"

If you've ever looked at a teenager's text message and thought it looked more like a kindergartener's scrawl, you might not be far off.

Middle school students who frequently use "tech-speak"—omitting letters to shorten words and using homophone symbols, such as @ for "at" or 2nite for "tonight"—performed worse on a test of basic grammar, according to a new study in New Media & Society. (Sarah D. Sparks at Education Week)