Just like learners of English couldn't understand
c u l8r

Actually, English text talk is extremely well known thanks to the Internet. Now try to learn another language's... c u l8r!

The only way I can think you can learn it is if you ask a native speaker yourself, because no book teaches it for some reason.

For instance in Spanish in Latin America:
que = q
porque, porqué, por qué = xq

de = d
de que = d q / dq
donde, dónde = dond (sometimes)

te = t

se = c (sometimes)

me = m (sometimes)

ve = b (sometimes)

bien = bn
también = tambn

concha de tu madre = ctm (common insult among South Americans)

puta tu madre = ptm (sometimes)

te lo juro = tlj

all final /ka/ sounds are written <k>:
nunca = nunk
acá = ak
loca = lok

sí = see (sometimes, using English mechanics)

más = + (sometimes)
demás = d+ (sometimes)

Overall, intentional misspellings of c-z-s, y-ll-i, b-v; omition of h, repeating the letter zzzz unnecesarily, are very common.

More or less, everyone has their own style to text, and you get used to it over time. For instance, some friends and I always write <y>, <yo>, <ya>, <llamar>, <llorar> as *i, *io, *ia, *iamar and *iorar just to be playful with the orthography. A friend of mine wrote all unstressed final /o/ and every /o/ in one syllable words as <u> and the same from /e/ to <i>, so <yo te amo> would be *yu ti amu! Another guy wrote imitating an stereotypical Caribbean way to speak, so <te voy a decir> would be *t vua desir...

And there's more from where that came from, but that's all on the top of my head.
i hay + d dond eso vino, pero eso es todo lo q c m vino a la cabeza

"Gzoi oi, LAU WA...u toi dau rui ma 0 goi me vay? Chung nao toi nho nhan me nhe! bye"

Well since the single syllable in Vietnamese does not exceed 7 letters (most syllable is usually 3-4 letters long), there's no need to shorten many words. As you can see ^ not much needs to be shortened. The proper form and translation are:

"Giời ơi, LÂU QUÁ́...bạn ở đâu rồi mà không gọi tui vậy? Chừng nào tới nhớ nhấn tui nhé! bye"
[Omg, SO SLOW where are you already and why haven't you called me? When you arrive remember to message me okay! bye]

Of course it's mostly overseas Vietnamese who typically use the English u (you) and me informally maybe because of the out of date system Vietnamese uses lol. I mean, we don't even have a truly neutral word for neither I nor you.

If he was talking about the Vietnamese diaspora (Vietnamese Americans, Australians, etc) it's probably because the phones simply don't have all of the proper diacritics.
But, if he meant Viets in Vietnam, maybe because it would take forever to type all those diacritics?

He was talking about the Vietnamese in Vietnam.

Here you have the posts:

So yeah, it's pretty much because no one feels like taking their time to add all the tones.

Sorry, when I said "handwritten" I meant cursive. (Here most handwritten material is done in some sort of cursive.) With so many accents it would be difficult to write cursively, unless there was a system to write the accents with cursive too. (Now that would be cool.) Can you get me a scan of your friends mom's writing or some other person who writes cursive Vietnamese?



As awesome as it would be, I don't think it is a good idea.

The problem with Chu Nom is that it isn't meant for Vietnamese. It is more like bending the Chinese writing system to write Vietnamese. I'm not even sure if it is possible to learn Chu Nom without knowing Classical Chinese itself. Realistically you can't get the whole country to be bilingual, so if you try to revive Chu Nom you'll end up with only a small minority of the population being literate. Chu nom has lots of strokes so it isn't very practical. It is also very unorganized, with native words being written in a variety of creative ways.

Simplification (and maybe standardization) of Chu Nom could help the situation, but it would be very difficult to pull off right.

Learners of English usually don't understand English even when it's normally written. You tend to pronounce numbers like in your own native tongue, so things like c u l8r is exceptionally difficult. But even if you would write 8 as eight (and not acht, like in my native language), English stays random.

c could be sea or see
u is you
l8r -> leighter -> laughter?

That's the worst thing of English: your random pronounciation.

though=dough
(th)ough=/=(t)ough
etc...

I find the words starting with consonant + e even worse: "is that /ɹi/, or /ɹɪ/, or /ɹɛ/?" You can't never tell! (Well, at least it can only be /ɹɛ/ if the stress is in that syllable, but there's nothing that stops me from pronouncing "research" with /ɹɪ/...) And that goes with where do you intervocalic voice <s> and where you don't—completely random too. I totally hate this...

I'm sorry Neqitan and Dennis. Thanks for having completely/almost completely orthographic languages.

My language is not orthographic, but English takes the cake.