"with the exception of a few recent coinages like LOL, “virtually all the commonly used ones can be found in English a century ago.” For example, bn (been), btwn (between) and wd (would) can all be found in a 1942 dictionary of abbreviations."
Response:
This quote shows that abbreviations of words have been around for a long time now. I believe that we are seeing so much news about it now is because of the frequency of texting and the amount ot texts that the population sends. The article also talks about how maybe it is time to reform the way spelling of words are in the English language to make them more understandable, therefore spelling them phonetically. Nobody likes change, but I feel that it could be done, given some limits. We would have to agree on the spellings or you would have many different spellings for each word.
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I believe this cartoon shows that we basically beat the use of proper english and spelling into students early on.
Reference:
Shea, Ammon. "The Keypad Solution." January 22, 2010. The New York Times.
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