Neologisms are growing in today's world.

Hi nykel88, oh, that is the term for it. Now I know..hihi! I think the habit of text messaging and "short-cut" words and phrases affects the writing of some people especially kids who are still studying. Maybe it can affect the person's skills in the said language in a lot of ways. I think it is true and it is obviously happening right now. It is growing because a lot of people find it easier and it saves time in sending messages. I, too, usually do that in sending text messages both in YM (chat, messenger,etc.) and my mobile phone. But with proper education and parent's guidance it could be controlled and kids will definitely understand where and when to use text words.

I see that you are really talking about 'alternative spelling' rather than actual new words. I have seen this referred to as "txtspk" and it has come about because SMS messages can only be 165 characters long (these days it is sometimes possible to concatenate messages and to, effectively, send messages longer than the 165 characters). As with most things, there is a time and a place where it is appropriate to use txtspk. It is certainly not appropriate where length is no problem and that applies particularly to English (or any other language) as used in school or in formal writing. There has always been a case to be made for the regularization of English spelling, which is notoriously irregular, and many attempts to do so have been made. Really the only one that met with any kind of success was the one by Webster in compiling his dictionary which was the main cause of the differences between English and American spelling ('colour/color', 'theatre/theater', 'litre/liter' and so on). Spelling reform has given rise to a number of excellent jokes, one of the oldest examples being by Mark Twain: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/87/2094.10.html (a longer version of this, which gives no credit to Mark Twain, has long circulated on the Internet). Writing good, clear English is a skill of which I feel one should be proud. Spelling is one thing and it is polite to one's readers to make as good an attempt as one can at spelling correctly but this is really only a convention that we agree to abide by. There is nothing inherently 'wrong' with spelling the syllable 'you' as the letter 'u' (because they are pronounced approximately the same) but until it becomes normal to do so, it will be regarded as illiterate and even offensive. It is actually much more important to use vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and syntax properly, so that one's meaning is absolutely clear, and to structure one's thoughts logically so that people can follow one's arguments easily. Many legal documents, to take only one example, are written in an unnecessarily obtuse way. While I certainly object to the use of 'alternative spelling', I think that it's far more important that the text itself should be clear and readable.

nykel88 you just reved up my pet peeve. text speak. I see just too 'darned many discussions here where the word you is instead u, and your is yr,dis is this and dat is that, murder this is just wicked to use our English language this way. I am beginning to think a lot of kids now do not know how to spell this or that, or you or your. Skul oh my aching head,what is going on? Yes I do believe this is true , not beliv dis is' tru!!!!!!Come on mylotters, are not all of us adults with some knowledge of the English language?

I have always wondered how neologisms come into existence. If it's possible I would like to add some more Dutch phrases and stuff.

Neologism..I learned a new word today. Yeah. you are correct. That is growing rapidly in today's world. Till the stage of we are in schools or colleges, it won't be that much grown. Because we would write exams with correct spellings. But after that, it came into limelight. I can feel many of my spellings are changed. Without thinking I am texting 'good' as 'gud' and 'night' as 'n8'. Like this many words.

ya i belive this type of problems , so i am also suffering from spelling and exact word not forming at time of word formation.