Check it Out: How’s Your ‘Tweenspeak’?

hey BF4L chillax — I got the cheddar — cant talk MOS — l8r

If you don’t understand this, you’d better learn. It’s the language of your future.

As the use of cell phones and texting explodes, tweens and teens are using this type of “tweenspeak” in their texts, e-mails and instant messages every day. As computers become second nature to them, they spend more time — and money — shopping on the Internet. As a result, you may have to change the way you communicate with them.