I totally agree with this, but I can say it doesn't mean you are not "hip" if you don't talk in what they call 1337 or shorten words it is just the lazyness of us teens now-a-days (I'm 14). I mean round where I live it is all "innit" and "wickid" but it doesn't mean we shorten our words while when we are writing in english or any subject. I am actually doing pretty well on for a level 7, but my point is it is just the way people are brought up and how lazy they are it is not down to coolness but lazyness.