Chatspeak, also commonly referred to as txtspeak since the advent of cell-phone texting, is a severe problem facing the English language. Chatspeak, essentially, dissolves the normal English language into a much-simplified form, using phonetics, numeric sounds, and 'unnecessary' vowels and punctuation as a basis for its development. As such, 'love' becomes 'luv', people becomes 'ppl', 'great' becomes 'gr8', 'like' becomes 'liek', 'it's' becomes 'itz', 'is' becomes 'iz' and 'adjudicate' becomes 'adjdic8'.