New Zealand to literacy: "l8r!"
Via CNN [link to http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/11/nz.text.ap/index.html no longer works]:
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s high school students will be able to use “text-speak” — the mobile phone text message language beloved of teenagers — in national exams this year, officials said.
Text-speak, a second language for thousands of teens, uses abbreviated words and phrases such as “txt” for “text”, “lol” for “laughing out loud” or “lots of love,” and “CU” for “see you.”
Image of a ‘u’ is from Brenda Anderson.