Corpora: SMS abbreviations

[Tim Buckwalter]

I'd like to thank the persons who helped me find SMS abbreviations in
various languages.

A Spanish glossary can be seen at this site:
http://members.tripod.es/sinar17062001/smsdiccionario.html

Several German glossaries (and informative articles) can be seen here:
http://www.absmsen.de/index.html
http://www.vorteil24.at/sms_abkuerzungen.htm
http://www.tomorrow.de/handy/sms/lexikon

And there are two books out on the subject:

In English:
WAN2TLK? ltle bk of txt msgs, London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2000, pp.95,
ISBN: 185479678X
http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/omara.htm
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D185479678X

in French:
Jacques Anis. Parlez-vous texto ? Guide des nouveaux langages du réseau
2VINDOUJTEKRI ???
Le cherche-midi éditeur ISBN n° 2 86274.888.9 112 pages  115 x 190  58
francs  8,84 €  (2001)
The author's website:
http://jacques92.multimania.com/
http://jacques92.multimania.com/Parlez-vous_texto.html
Reviews:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/reseau/tendances/0109/ten_101090015184.html
http://www.bretagne-online.com/telegram/htdocs/archive/2001/20010725/24_HEURES/article/art_010A080000_3047847.htm

http://interactif.lemonde.fr/article/0,5611,2858-5589-189885-0,FF.html

BTW, where I work (AOL, Seattle office) we make software for cell phones
that allows users to press one key per letter when typing these SMS texts.
To type "CUL8R", for example, you would simply press 2-8-5-8-7 (rather than
multitapping 2-2-2 for "C", 8-8 for "U", 5-5-5 for "L", etc.

Regards,
Tim


Tim Buckwalter wrote:

> I'm looking for glossaries of commonly used Short Message Service
> abbreviations in Spanish, French , Italian and German. Typical English
> SMS abbreviations include "CUL8R" (see you later) and B4 (before). For
> Spanish I know of only "TQ" (te quiero), "T2" (todos), and "SL2"
> (saludos). I've done various Google searches using the keywords "SMS
> slang dictionary glosary" in the respective languages, and I've found
> references to publications of English SMS vocabulary (e.g.
> http://es.gsmbox.com/news/mobile_news/all/50850.gsmbox) but nothing for
> Spanish, French, Italian and German. Any links to SMS glossaries in
> these languages would be appreciated.
> TIA,
> Tim
>
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> Tim Buckwalter
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