14.450, Media: AP: Messaging language

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Subject: 14.450, Media: AP: Messaging language

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

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Date:  Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:58:21 +0800
From:  "Karen Chung" <karchung at ntu.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/



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