What about the danger that textspeak may work its way into formal writing requirements, such as school essays?

And that's without the all too frequent departures from English into teenspeak and textspeak.

The song's lyrics contain textspeak, and reference iPhones and Twitter.

The vehicles have been branded as "the future of travel", the operators claiming that ftr is textspeak for the word future.

However, Helen Cooper, a professor of English at Cambridge University, voices the worry that textspeak is not enough.

"There is no evidence the use of textspeak is harming literacy development in children: in fact the associations are positive, rather than negative," says Dr Wood.

Because I am a teen, it does not mean I am unable to switch between textspeak and formal essay writing; it's as easy as switching between chatting to your friends and speaking to an elderly aunt."

Producers of dedicated devices include Auditory Sciences, Dynavox Mayer-Johnson, LC Technologies, Prentke Romich Company, Saltillo Corporation, TextSpeak Design., Tobii Technology and Words+.

In a related development, mobile phone textspeak has been hijacked and encouraged to grow into something whose comedic qualities have been set ablaze by the careful and knowing economy that marks the usage of a small band of leading posters.

It is of course an end-of the book and its various storylines, but also of contemporary language, given over to a precisely detailed and believable textspeak wherein people communicate the most serious things about themselves in the streamlined lingo that's encouraged by the limits of typing on small apparatuses.