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Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.
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Acronym
An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).
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Adroitness
Social adroitness is a personality trait measured in the Jackson Personality Inventory and the Jackson Personality Inventory-Revised.
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Ambiguity
Ambiguity is a type of meaning in which several interpretations are plausible.
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Anglicisation
Anglicisation (or anglicization, see English spelling differences), occasionally anglification, anglifying, englishing, refers to modifications made to foreign words, names and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in English.
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Capitalization
Capitalisation, or capitalization,see spelling differences is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (upper-case letter) and the remaining letters in lower case in writing systems with a case distinction.
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Chat room
The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.
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Computer keyboard
In computing, a computer keyboard is a typewriter-style device which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches.
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Context (language use)
In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind.
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Cupertino effect
The Cupertino effect is the tendency of a spell checker to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary with those that are wrong.
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Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script is a writing system used for various alphabets across Eurasia (particularity in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and North Asia).
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David Crystal
David Crystal, (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist, academic and author.
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DMG Media
DMG Media, formerly Associated Newspapers, is a national newspaper and website publisher in the UK.
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Ellipsis
An ellipsis (plural ellipses; from the ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, 'omission' or 'falling short') is a series of dots (typically three, such as "…") that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning.
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
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Emoticon
An emoticon (rarely pronounced) is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers, and letters—to express a person's feelings or mood, or as a time-saving method.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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English-language spelling reform
For centuries, there has been a movement to reform the spelling of English.
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Grammar
In linguistics, grammar (from Greek: γραμματική) is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.
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Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
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Hieroglyph
A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred writing") was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system.
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Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.
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Instant messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat that offers real-time text transmission over the Internet.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Internet culture
Internet culture, or cyberculture, is the culture that has emerged, or is emerging, from the use of computer networks for communication, entertainment, and business.
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Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text.
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Internet slang
Internet slang (Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, or chatspeak) refers to various kinds of slang used by different people on the Internet.
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Jejemon
Jejemon is a popular culture phenomenon in the Philippines.
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John Humphrys
Desmond John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is a Welsh broadcaster.
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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
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Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
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Latin spelling and pronunciation
Latin spelling, or Latin orthography, is the spelling of Latin words written in the scripts of all historical phases of Latin from Old Latin to the present.
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Leet
Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings and verbiage used primarily on the Internet for many phonetic languages.
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Lexicography
Lexicography is divided into two separate but equally important groups.
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List of language regulators
This is a list of bodies that regulate standard languages, often called language academies.
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Logogram
In written language, a logogram or logograph is a written character that represents a word or phrase.
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LOL
LOL, or lol, is an acronym for laugh(ing) out loud or lots of laughs, and a popular element of Internet slang.
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Mobile operating system
No description.
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA, Mana Tohu Mātauranga o Aotearoa) is the New Zealand government crown entity tasked with providing leadership in assessment and qualifications.
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Newspeak
Newspeak is the language of Oceania, a fictional totalitarian state ruled by the Party, who created the language to meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism (Ingsoc).
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.
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Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language.
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Paralanguage
Paralanguage is a component of meta-communication that may modify meaning, give nuanced meaning, or convey emotion, such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation, etc.
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Pictogram
A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object.
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Pragmatics
Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning.
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Predictive text
Predictive text is an input technology used where one key or button represents many letters, such as on the numeric keypads of mobile phones and in accessibility technologies.
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Prosody (linguistics)
In linguistics, prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but are properties of syllables and larger units of speech.
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Punctuation
Punctuation (formerly sometimes called pointing) is the use of spacing, conventional signs, and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and correct reading of handwritten and printed text, whether read silently or aloud.
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QWERTY
QWERTY is a keyboard design for Latin-script alphabets.
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Rebus
A rebus is a puzzle device which combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words and/or phrases.
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Richard Ling
Richard Ling (Rich Ling) is a communications scholar who focuses on mobile communication.
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Scribal abbreviation
Scribal abbreviations or sigla (singular: siglum or sigil) are the abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in Latin, and later in Greek and Old Norse.
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Sexting
Sexting is sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images, primarily between mobile phones.
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Slang
Slang is language (words, phrases, and usages) of an informal register that members of special groups like teenagers, musicians, or criminals favor (over a standard language) in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
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Smartphone
A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi.
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SMS
SMS (short message service) is a text messaging service component of most telephone, internet, and mobile-device systems.
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Sonar
Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
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Telegram style
Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style or telegraphese is a clipped way of writing that attempts to abbreviate words and pack as much information into the smallest possible number of words or characters.
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Telex
The telex network was a public switched network of teleprinters similar to a telephone network, for the purposes of sending text-based messages.
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Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, tablets, desktops/laptops, or other devices.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Tironian notes
Tironian notes (notae Tironianae; or Tironian shorthand) is a system of shorthand invented by Tiro (94 4 BC), Marcus Tullius Cicero's slave and personal secretary, and later his freedman.
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Txtng: the Gr8 Db8
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 is a book written by linguist David Crystal.
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Typographic ligature
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined as a single glyph.
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University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university primarily located in Tasmania, Australia.
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Vodacom
Vodacom Group Limited (Vodacom) is a South African mobile communications company, providing voice, messaging, data and converged services to over 55 million customers.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_language
