![]() ![]() Some may view SMS language to be a nascent dialect of the English language, that is a dialect strongly if not completely derivative of the English language. The writing reads (misspelled) Hitler was evil! SMS language as a multilingual entity The child's speech reads: "But it's true! What are you, a Nazi?" (written in SMS language). There is an amusing on line translator which may provide some idea of the format.Ĭomic intended to illustrate the French version of "Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers". Häxor means witchcraft in the Swedish language which is an oblique reference to English language Hacker text that replaces some conventional letters with numbers or symbols to make it look like code to confuse Keyword (Internet search) automated spyware but which can be read with a little imagination: for example H4XOR. Words can also be combined with numbers to make them shorter (for example, “later” to “l8r”), using the numeral “8″ for its homophonic quality. ![]() Any word may be shortened (for example, “text” to “txt”). Nevertheless, there are no standard rules for the creation and use of SMS languages. One example is the use of “tomoz” instead of “tomorrow”. In general, SMS language thus permits the sender to type less and communicate more quickly than one could without such shortcuts. Nevertheless, the invention of mobile phone messaging is considered to be the source for the invention of SMS language. In addition, similarly elliptical styles of writing can be traced to the days of telegraphese 120 years back, where telegraph operators were reported to use abbreviations similar to those used in modern text when chatting amongst themselves in between sending of official messages. Likewise, such a change sought to accommodate the small number of characters allowed per message, and to increase convenience for the time-consuming and often small keyboards on mobile phones. It also shares some of these characteristics with Internet slang and Telex speak following from how its evolution is rather symbiotic to the evolution of use of shorthand in Internet chat rooms. This follows from how early SMS permitted only 160 characters and some carriers charge messages by the number of characters sent. It seeks to use the fewest number of letters to produce ultra-concise words and sentiments in dealing with space, time and cost constraints of text messaging. ![]() SMS language is similar to that used by those sending telegraphs that charged by the word. At its peak, it was the cause of vigorous debate about its potentially detrimental effect on literacy, but with the advent of alphabetic keyboards on smartphones its use, and the controversies surrounding it, have receded. Once it became popular it took on a life of its own and was often used outside of its original context. Three features of early mobile phone messaging encouraged users to use abbreviations: (a) Text entry was difficult, requiring multiple key presses on a small keypad to generate each letter (b) Messages were limited to 160 characters, and (c) it made texting faster. SMS language or textese (also known as txt-speak, txtese, chatspeak, txt, txtspk, txtk, txto, texting language, txt lingo, SMSish, txtslang,or txt talk) is a term for the abbreviations and slang commonly used with mobile phone text messaging, but sometimes used with other Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging. ![]()
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