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HwTuHavGr8Txt UR2KIn2ME ~ CnIFlrtWvU This page explores the expanding use of abbreviated spellings [shown above] in the context of mobile communications.
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As shown below most abbreviations
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on the other hand
SWDYT: So what do you think? XLNT: excellent "Easy to understand abbreviations and new spellings have taken over." In Britain, text talkers send over 50 million messages a day. The future of texting
Texting refers to the abbreviated form of writing used on mobile phones and pagers with tiny screens and keyboards. [equipment list] Texting is typing and sending people very short messages which they can view on the readout screens of their cell phones or pagers. It differs from email in two important respects: data input is via the key pad rather than a keyboard, [2] the technology currently limits the length of the message. Using the SMS [short messaging service] is cheaper and often more convenient than actually calling everyone you know. You can send the same text message to multiple people so the technology can be used to reach many people at once, so it takes less time. "You're talking about being able to access somebody no matter where they are, no matter what time of the day it is, no matter whether they're at work, at home, whether they're walking down the street," says Josh Newman, the editor of unstrung.com, a company that follows this technology. American Airlines has begun using text messaging by sending messages to passengers if their flights are delayed. The
New York Police Department is using text messengers instead of bulky computers
to check license plates.
And the technology really did help oust former Philippine President Joseph Estrada last January. The media called it the "text-messaging revolution." "The joke goes that President Estrada is the only chief of state in the world to be ousted by text messaging," wrote the Manila Standard. It's also the rage among the world's teenagers. In Britain, 77 percent of teens own cell phones, but they're texting on them, not talking. "Text is really driving it, because the youngsters especially love the idea that they can do something a little bit secret," says Paul Edwards, a British telecommunications consultant. "[It's] really very much a young person's communication." Look around and you'll see more people texting, because it's cheap, it's cool and it's just like e-mail, except it's with you all the time. "And it's about information you need immediately at a certain location," says Newman. And if you have any doubt that it's already changing our lives, think of Al Gore last November. He was in his motorcade on the way to concede the presidential election when his staff stopped him by sending him a text message. http://www.text.it/texting/index.asp Today, phones are getting smaller and lighter by the minute and people are doing a lot more with them than just talking. The dialling has stopped and the keying has started as text messaging has taken over, becoming the coolest and trendiest way of communicating. Text
messaging or SMS is quick, cheap and fun. Introduced in 1995 as a way of
allowing phone networks to communicate important service messages to their
subscribers, over the past two years text messaging has caught the imagination
of mobile phone users all over the
Almost one billion text messages are now sent every month in the UK. It is estimated that 100 million of these are work related, which means that nearly 900 million are not! The discreet element of sending a text message makes it a popular way to flirt and socialise. In December 2000, 756 million text messages were sent in Britain as we dumped the traditional Christmas card in favour of a seasonal text message. easy to understand new spellings have taken over The
peak hours for text messaging are interestingly close to last orders, being
between 10.30pm and 11.00pm - party hoppers or frisky partners? This may
also account for the wild abbreviations and crazy, easy to understand new
spellings which have taken over.
Confused? Help is at hand. It means "Great news — text messages are now in the Concise Oxford Dictionary."
In Britain alone, more than 1 million mobile phone text messages are sent
every hour, so the Concise Oxford Dictionary has decided to include the
shorthand language in its revised edition published.
"We have been monitoring the phenomenal growth of text messaging with great attention: its influence is now such that we felt it was time to treat it as an integral part of English," said the dictionary's publishing manager, Judy Pearsall. Examples that have found a place in the dictionary include BBLR (be back later) and HAND (have a nice day). They are joined by so-called emoticons — representations of facial expressions such as :-) and :-(. The latest edition also includes new words judged to have entered everyday conversational use. Minger, meaning "an unattractive or unpleasant person," makes an entry, along with chowhound, defined by the dictionary as "a greedy person," and tweenies, "children trying to appear older than they are." — Reuters SMS is as popular as ever We are really a text message mad nation with over a billion of the natty little things winging their way across the UK in a month. The Mobile Data Association reports that over a billion messages were sent in August, the first time figures have topped a billion. This works out to a massive 35 million messages a day being zapped across the country by mobile users. The associaiton reckons this is merely a taste of things to come and predicts 20 billion messaages a month by the end of the year.
When they first introduced pay-as-you-go the network operators didn't even charge for texting. They soon realised their mistake and began to bill for SMS and text, and message traffic plummeted. Within a few months it rose to previous levels because texters were addicted! Texting has been an 'accidental revolution' and a purely consumer-driven phenomenon at that. Users had every possible barrier put in their way: it's difficult to use, it wasn't marketed at all, there was no information on how to use it and it's quite expensive. Despite all this consumers said "I don't care, I wan2 text!", and so it has become a part of everyday life. How
many text messages are sent every day?
What
does it mean when your delivery report says "message pending"?
Who're
the biggest text maniacs?
The biggest change will be when mobiles go multi-media - they'll have in-built digital cameras so you can send photo messages to 'share the moment'. People will start communicating more visually than they have in the past. And this will fuel texting uptake - after all, everyone understands the concept of sending a postcard. You've
got a team of people at Ringtones.com creating content, what are they working
on right now and where do they get their ideas from?
Who
starts those novelty messages with flashing icons and stuff, and how do
they do it?
What
does it mean when someone texts you a lot?
Got
any tips for writing a really flirty text message?
What
makes a good text message?
What
shouldn't be sent via SMS then?
What's
the best thing to send someone you fancy?
Predictive
Software
Using software is certainly easier than going it alone, but Howard Gutowitz, CEO of the 14-month-old startup Eatoni Ergonomics, thinks this system is still too confusing. His company, named after the six most commonly used letters in the English language, has devised new types of predictive-text software that rely on likelihood of occurrence, while allowing the user to combine, or chord, the keys. "Chording has a bad name in the industry, because supposedly no one will learn it," Gutowitz says, but adds that he believes that people will eventually learn to combine two keystrokes on a mobile-device keypad, just as they use a shift key on a standard keyboard to generate capital letters. But it would cross the line to use three keys, as you would on a keyboard with the CTRL-ALT-DELETE command necessary to reboot Windows machines. Gutowitz, a former mathematics professor, came up with the notion to develop predictive-text software several years ago, while his girlfriend was working as an operator at France Telecom, transcribing people's voice messages to text, so it could be sent out to pagers. Most messages fell into two categories: kids and teens contacting their friends, and adults making appointments to see someone with whom they were having an affair. Noticing the predictability of the messages, Gutowitz began developing systems that could anticipate the next letter or even the next word, based on the likelihood of their occurrence. In Eatoni's Letterwise system, for example, tapping a number key delivers the most likely letter on that keypad. If it's not the right letter, tapping a "Next" key offers the second-most likely, and so on. In standard systems, tapping keys in the order they appear on a numeric keypad requires an average of 2.2 key taps per letter, Gutowitz says. Using Letterwise reduces the average to 1.15 taps per letter, Gutowitz says. 4 F?
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At last committee meeting (or the one before) we expressed some
richard.gledhill@[] wrote: > A thought occurred to me earlier. In your infinite wisdom regarding the Simplified Spelling Society, what is your view on text message spelling for mobiles? Surely this represents the biggest interest in simplified spelling ever? R shd I say th bgst intrst in spelin evr? Indeed! And we are commissioning a couple of analyses and reports. The
main problem is that txt mssging is very idiosyncratic in two ways - there
is a lot of divergence amongst users, and
>"accumulate", "occasion", and "receive" >There are more consistent ways to spell these words
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L8 L8ER
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as far as I know
as soon as possible be be seeing you be right back been there done that buzz off by the way see consider it done because see you the do you like me easy falling on the floor,
free to talk get a life got to go great have a nice day hot for you hate I like you in my humble opinion in my not so humble opinion I'm too good for you okay laughing out loud OR loads of love late later love mate my mate fancies you may the force be with you any anything anyone no one no problem oh, I see oh, my God parents are watching please people are read the flippin' manual are you are you okay sorry shut the flip up someone so what do
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