06 July 2008
The antecedents of txtng
John Naughton reports on David Crystal's recent article on the language of text messaging (2 b or not 2 b), in which he draws together the historic antecedents of abbreviated language. It was sweet to be reminded of the rebus popular in my childhood: yy u r yy u b i c u r yy 4 me.
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Texting
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