Russian Cellphone jargon

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Elizaveta Moussinova wrote:

> ... An sms message is an "sms-ka". "Otpravit' sms / sms-ku".

Three syllables, not four, right? «Эсмэска», а не «Эсэмэска»?

But Google has 9,400 hits for the latter and only 32 for the former...

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Paul B. Gallagher
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