is writing the Greek language with latin characters, commonly used in SMS, chat and other forms of ephemeral communication. It's like txt language for English and the other languages written with the latin script in the first place.
The kind of people that hate everything the younger people do is against it, the nationalists are against it (but they use it because they can't spell decently), some teachers are against it. The other half of the population sees it as a non-standard way to write which is more efficient for certain types of communication and unacceptable for others.
A month before, Ράδιο Αρβύλα (Radio Arvila), a show about funny videos and not-so-great humor/satire that has as a main target group the 15-25yos (the age group that mostly uses greeklish is also 15-25) started this Anti-Greeklish campaign, using the same arguments that the nationalists they often make fun of use.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyUEDkgs2qc
>One of the few things left in this country to be proud about, is our language.
At this moment, a whole generation writes in Greeklish non-stop. A whole generations has basically forgot how to write in Greek. And then there will be another one, and another and another...
>Except if we realize the importance of the problem... of the CRIME against the Greek language that we perform
>It may seem like a harmless habit but this habit may make the written Greek language disappear, and not only that
>We CAN break this habit. Everyone, adults and the younger alike, especially the younger, and like this we can stop that destructive to the Greek language habit, Greeklish, for good .
And it's easy, if we do it all together.
>We just have to switch the keyboard to Greek on our computers, on our mobile phones, and if we make some spellings mistakes, it doesn't matter, that's how we are going to fix them.
>GRREEKLISS NO MORR
>ONLY GRREEK. Only Greek.
There's also a longer version
, were they say stuff like "the Greek language was simplified enough, let's stop here" "Greeklish is going to take over the place of Modern Greek and the latter is going to be like ancient Greek for the next generation", "no one will know Greek in few years" and so on.
And there's a clip were they make fun [url=http://youtu.be/6KODythHdtU]of Greeks that pronounce the "sh" in foreign words.
My bias is obvious. What's your view?