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SMS Creating a Virtual New Written
Language - Mar 9 2004
Chong Seck Chim for
New Straits Times ponders on why text
messaging is so appealing to young people and if
there really is cause for academic concern.
- "SMS has the edge on e-mail for small talk.
Many youngsters are hooked, and have become
expert at chopping up the words and phrases to
save time and money for their gossip.
- It takes a nimble mind and a deft thumb, to
key in the SMS text. Youngsters are ready to try
anything. Some pupils in England are now
learning Sindarin, the elvish language used in
The Lord of the Rings ó just for fun.
But what about concerns that that SMS
spelling is lowering standards all round? There
seems to be some legitimate cause to worry notes
Chim, "if you go by the many student job
applications ending in SMS style, "I hope 2 hear
from U soon".
"Purists may fret about its aberrations, as
they did once over bad handwriting and spelling.
Now it's the hybrid words, like ResQ and
Sureheboh, which bug the conformists. Still,
concludes Chim, in the end we should come out
all right".
Gaelic Text-Message Dictionary - April
19 2003
A tiny Gaelic guide to texting -- an
infamously difficult language spoken by fewer
than 60,000 Scots -- is now available to mobile
phone users. According to Marilyn Gillies, of
Gaelic media company, Canan, and the compiler of
Gaelic's first text-message dictionary:
"Text-messaging in Gaelic shows that the
language is alive and attractive to a new
generation". According to the
Scotland on Sunday.
An Essay Written in SMS Shorthand -
March 4 2003
Baffling her teacher and creating an uproar
in the academic world, a 13 year old Scottish
schoolgirl handed in an essay, entirely written
in text messaging shorthand. She said she found
it "easier than standard English".
Ananova
Your Texting Dictionary - Feb 17 2003
If you have trouble deciphering a text
message, check out
transL8it, the first SMS dictionary,
launched last year.
Simply type in your texting lingo and let
transL8it convert it to plain english, or type
in a phrase in english and convert it to TXT
lingo. EZ.
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