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Investigating how technology has affected the development of everyday language, looking mainly at text messages, chat rooms and e-mails and the creative spellings, abbreviations and acronyms used.
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Erin Buckley Introduction As mobile phones become more frequent it is questioned as to whether this increase has affected the English language. So I am investigating how technology has affected the development of everyday language, looking mainly at text messages, chat rooms and e-mails and the creative spellings, abbreviations and acronyms used. 43% of mobile phone users aged 12 to 17 use text messaging compared with 25% of those 30 to 34. The limited space and the difficulty of writing words on numeric phone keypads, have helped create the text-messaging lingo. Words have become abbreviated (HV for have) and common phrases have become acronyms (by the way becomes BTW), there are even texting dictionaries to interpret these. I chose this project because I wanted to see if this new wave of technology and fast increasing text terminology would have an effect on the everyday language of myself and those people...
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