Textism

• acronyms


  a word made up of the first letters of other words
• emoticons


  often a face expressing some kind of emotion
• clipping


  last letter of the word is left out
• letter/number homophones


  numbers or individual letters represent sounds in words
• accent stylization


  words are written in the same way as they are spoken
• non-conventional spelling


  different orthography to formal version, often used for emphasis
• contractions/ abbreviations


  letters (usually vowels) are omitted within a word
• non-conventional capitalization


  all letters of a word or all words in a sentence are printed in capital letters to show anger or excitement
• non-conventional punctuation


  punctuation is used incorrectly for emphasis