Pixmania, which is one of those online tings, brud, innit, erm…, Let's start that again.

Digital equipment e-tailer Pixmania has released some research that claims that more and more l337 speak (that's what geeks do) is being added to the english language every year. 200 new words, the firm says, will be added to our language over the next 365 days, which seems rather precise a number – does Pixmania has a nonsense word generating machine? Or legions of propeller hat wearing geeks ready to spread its radical new language?

Anyway, announcing the news, Ulric Jerome, the managing director of pixmania.com, said: "Technology has infiltrated our lives in many ways and at such a pace it is natural that it has developed a language of its own."

Which is rather disappointing. You think he could have at least chucked a smiley in there.