Miguxês (Portuguese pronunciation: [miɡuˈʃes] or [miɣuˈʃeʃ]), also known in Portugal as pita talk or pita script (pronounced [ˈpitɐ]), is an Internet slang of the Portuguese language that was popular in the 2000s and early 2010s among Brazilian teenagers on the Internet and other electronic media, such as messages written on cell phones.
This sociolect of Vernacular Brazilian Portuguese brought possible simplifications in the grammatical structures, since the vehicles in which miguxês was used were nearly universally colloquial, often space-delimited (such as SMS messages, instant messengers or social networks).
While in the Internet, in a general manner, there is a handful of a different phenomenon in which users communicate with abbreviations to simplify writing, miguxês carried with it an effective intention, that is, to express an infantile language in a conversation between friends, or even satirize this style of communication.
Together with the cited urban tribes, they started to fall out of the mainstream in the early 2010s, so that they have much lower popularity with the following teen generation that did not see its spreading as a frequent Internet meme.
Although orthography rules of miguxês may vary individually, and also in each region and in different urban tribes since it is plain broken Portuguese, there are certain characteristics often commonly found as: Brazilian indie and scene kids used a related Internet sociolect, the tiopês (from tiop, which is a corruption of Portuguese tipo, or equivalent to English "like, totally", in tiopês), which mainly uses ingroup memes as well purposeful ridiculous-sounding misspellings to add humor or irony to the message and bring group identification, much like teh of English-derived leetspeak.