QUOTE: "In fact, he said, with the exception of a few recent coinages like LOL, “virtually all the commonly used ones can be found in English a century ago.” For example, bn (been), btwn (between) and wd (would) can all be found in a 1942 dictionary of abbreviations."
RESPONSE: I thought that he had an interesting point here because the article kind of started off very negative against texting and the texting language. As mentioned early in the article, some people don't really get the texting launguage and are annoyed by it, saying that young people are lazy and need to shorten words. But, I agree with the above quote and found it interesting that some of the abbreviations could be found in a 1942 dictionary of abbreviations. There are a lot more abbreviations used other than bn for been, btwn for between, and wd for would. Such as: dne for done, or wnt for won't, or dnt for don't.
CITATION: Shea, Ammon. The Keypad Solution. (2010). New York Times: New York. <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html.>
Video:- KMBCTV.(2008).Text Messages New Language of Teens.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdrGUk6K5qI&feature=fvsr>
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdrGUk6K5qI&feature=fvsr
In this video it talks mainly about how students and young people text a lot and talks about the different abbreviations and codes. The news people question that it may be becoming the new language of teens.
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