Last time I checked, studying only 12 people to define humanity as a whole was not considered very scientific. Apparently, all those text messages you get that are shortened with textspeak are really a symptom of videogame violence. lt us aL roL on d flOr :-d. & hEr I thawt txt msgz wer a way 2 qixlE typ out a msg.

To translate for Dr. Chow Yuan-hua: Let us all roll on the floor laughing. And here I thought text messages were a way to quickly type out a message.

From the article:

According to Dr. Chow, 'textspeak' is a symptom of gaming. As we spend more and more hours playing violent games, the blood circulation in our brains' frontal lobes significantly reduces, diminishing our ability to carry out higher mental activities, like proper speech. "[Parents] have to try to keep [their kids] away from [violent] games, if they don't want to receive any more 'textspeak' messages," warns Dr. Chow.

Read the full article over at joystiq.com