Russian Cellphone jargon

[Elizaveta Moussinova]

4 syllables: es-em-es-ka (ýñ-ýì-ýñ-êà)! :)
There is a verb, too: esemesit' / SMSit' (ÑÌÑèòü). "îòýñåìåñèòü âñåì äðóçüÿì".

Google has 7 180 000 for CMC (written in Cyrillic).

Liz



Quoting "Paul B. Gallagher" <paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM>:

> Elizaveta Moussinova wrote:
>
>> ... An sms message is an "sms-ka". "Otpravit' sms / sms-ku".
>
> Three syllables, not four, right? «???????», ? ?? «????????»?
>
> But Google has 9,400 hits for the latter and only 32 for the former...
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