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on Aug 18, 2019
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HK social media users writing phonetically spelled...
I remember this being similar to the reason claimed for the use of leet speak back in the day (i.e, that it prevented searching of messages by 'the man' ); Interesting to see something so similar actually being practically applied in the present.
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