"chatspeak" meaning in English

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          "text": "Our students are using Internet shorthand or chatspeak in their online yakking in chat rooms and e-mails.",
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          "text": "I don't mind saying 'u' instead of 'you' so much, mostly because I've become numb to it, and some people do it because it's 'cool' to speak chatspeak.",
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          "text": "Is it too much to imagine a Bible written entirely in the language of tomorrow: Internet chatspeak and text message shorthand?",
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