Cellphones, instant messaging, e-mail and the like have encouraged younger
users to create their own inventive, quirky and very private written language.
That has given them the opportunity to essentially hide in plain sight. They
are more connected than ever, but also far more independent.

                -- NYTimes, "Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)", March 9 2008

That "inventive, quirky, and very private written language" is a simple
phonetic substitution with a couple of abbreviations. If Mom & Dad can't crack
it, the problem isn't that they're old, it's that they're retarded.

                -- IOZ