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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
bulletin boards and <a href="../T/talker-system.html"><i class="glossterm">talker system</i></a>s. Syllables and
whole words in a sentence are replaced by single ASCII characters the names
of which are phonetically similar or equivalent, while multiple letters are
usually dropped. Hence, &#8216;for&#8217; becomes &#8216;4&#8217;;
&#8216;two&#8217;, &#8216;too&#8217;, and &#8216;to&#8217; become
&#8216;2&#8217;; &#8216;ck&#8217; becomes &#8216;k&#8217;. &#8220;<span class="quote">Before I
see you tomorrow</span>&#8221; becomes &#8220;<span class="quote">b4 i c u 2moro</span>&#8221;. First
appeared in London about 1986, and was probably caused by the slowness of
available talker systems, which operated on archaic machines with outdated
operating systems and no standard methods of communication.</p><p>Hakspek almost disappeared after the great bandwidth explosion of the
early 1990s, as fast Internet links wiped out the old-style talker systems.
However, it has enjoyed a revival in another medium &#8212; the Short Message
Service (SMS) associated with GSM cellphones. SMS sends are limited to a
maximum of 160 characters, and typing on a cellphone keypad is difficult
and slow anyway. There are now even published paper dictionaries for SMS
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>