Texting was designed to be a quick and easy
form of communication. Over time it has evolved into a preferred form of
communication. Instead of people texting a short, sharp, quick, and easy, “what
u doin 2nite?” they use text to send epic messages about thoughts feelings and
emotions that would more easily and efficiently be communicated through voice.
Anyway, through this evolution of texting from ‘convenient’ to ‘preferred’ it
has formed its own language.
As
you can see in my example text above, texting originated with minimal
punctuation and grammatical rules so we could shoot of a message in a matter of
seconds. To save time, we have developed an extensive lexicon of acronyms; lol,
wtf, lmao, rofl, brb, g2g, just to name a few. But now that we would rather
text each other than talk to each other, these acronyms have crept into our
everyday language (without further research, I want to say that many of these
have actually been published in some brands of dictionaries). I am having real
conversations with real people in which I actually hear the phrases ‘lol,’
‘brb,’ and ‘wtf,’ more than I care to publicly announce.
“BRB,
I need to pee.”
“LOL.”
“It was like, legit LOLs.”
“WTF,
that’s crazy.”
Stop
it.
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