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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hakspek</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="HAKMEM.html" title="HAKMEM"/><link rel="next" href="Halloween-Documents.html" title="Halloween Documents"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hakspek</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="HAKMEM.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Halloween-Documents.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hakspek"/><dt xmlns="" id="hakspek"><b>hakspek</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/hak´speek/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A shorthand method of spelling found on many British academic
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bulletin boards and <a href="../T/talker-system.html"><i class="glossterm">talker system</i></a>s. Syllables and
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whole words in a sentence are replaced by single ASCII characters the names
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of which are phonetically similar or equivalent, while multiple letters are
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usually dropped. Hence, ‘for’ becomes ‘4’;
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‘two’, ‘too’, and ‘to’ become
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‘2’; ‘ck’ becomes ‘k’. “<span class="quote">Before I
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see you tomorrow</span>” becomes “<span class="quote">b4 i c u 2moro</span>”. First
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appeared in London about 1986, and was probably caused by the slowness of
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available talker systems, which operated on archaic machines with outdated
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operating systems and no standard methods of communication.</p><p>Hakspek almost disappeared after the great bandwidth explosion of the
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early 1990s, as fast Internet links wiped out the old-style talker systems.
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However, it has enjoyed a revival in another medium — the Short Message
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Service (SMS) associated with GSM cellphones. SMS sends are limited to a
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maximum of 160 characters, and typing on a cellphone keypad is difficult
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and slow anyway. There are now even published paper dictionaries for SMS
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users to help them do hakspek-to-English and vice-versa.</p><p>See also <a href="../T/talk-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">talk mode</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="HAKMEM.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Halloween-Documents.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">HAKMEM </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Halloween Documents</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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