pidgin?
'Foppish' has two 'p's.
:-)
Also, yes I believe that does count as a pidgin. And there are enough PhD Linguistics students about for at least a few people to be studying it - as far back as five years ago the fabulous British linguist David Crystal wrote a book called 'Language and the Internet', which touches on this sort of thing. Language and language study sites are very well represented on the Internewt, so if you do a search you'll probably find a few mentions of it.
Duly noted and correted.
But I'm not sure what to Google on for this particular topic...
It may also be an attempt to compensate for an English keyboard.
Yes, that's exactly why...well, the keyboard and possibly character-display issues. I'm sure if technnology wasn't an issue they'd prefer to write in Russian.