LINGUIST List 14.450

Fri Feb 14 2003

Media: AP: Messaging language

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  • Karen Chung, Media: AP: Messaging language

    Message 1: Media: AP: Messaging language

     Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:58:21 +0800
    From: Karen Chung <karchungntu.edu.tw>
    Subject: Media: AP: Messaging language


    There's a feature from AP (Feb 13, 2003) entitled "Linguists Are Mixed About Text Messages", by Melissa Trujillo. It begins:

    MILWAUKEE (AP) - The text messages on Margarete Stettner's cell phone are filled with shortcuts - "G2G" for "got to go" and "LOL" instead of "laugh out loud." The 13-year-old sometimes even slips into text-messaging lingo in her homework.

    The URL is:

    http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030213/D7P5M1D00.html

    but it may expire soon, in which case the story may be locatable with a key word search over Google.

    Karen Steffen Chung http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/