Who texts more girls or boys?
How much % of indians have mobiles?
By which year indian mobile users reach to 100% ?
How much % of sms users use texting lingo like "r u cmng" ?
Does texting messages harm students writing skills?
Do you that there are websites that convert plain english to texting lingo and vise versa?
See the pictures below to find it out !!
In my third semester at IIT M, We have humanity sciences course for it i made this report
How much % of indians have mobiles?
By which year indian mobile users reach to 100% ?
How much % of sms users use texting lingo like "r u cmng" ?
Does texting messages harm students writing skills?
Do you that there are websites that convert plain english to texting lingo and vise versa?
See the pictures below to find it out !!
In my third semester at IIT M, We have humanity sciences course for it i made this report
In 2009, the United Nations reported that more than 60% of the world’s population has access to mobile phones. Text and instant messaging have introduced a new shorthand vocabulary for communication in today’s world. 82 million people send text messages regularly in the U.S.Telecom minister announced that every person in India will get a mobile by 2020.The cell phone language was getting changed due to the introdutction of T9 dictionary, Qwerty keypad and touch pad .On December 3, 1992 in the United Kingdom, the first SMS messaging was used in a commercial sent through a Vodafone GSM network. The SMS message was sent by Neil Papworth with the use of a desktop computer. Since 1995 only a few messages were sent through SMS.
But during the year 2000, there has been a gradual increase in the use of text messaging[1]
But during the year 2000, there has been a gradual increase in the use of text messaging[1]
Literature Review: I have read some thesis papers, termpapers on language on the cellphone and here I presented some of them.
1. The Secret Language of Teens[2]
The report says how the teens use the texting lingo which can’t be understood by their elders.
Some words in that report:
KPC: keeping parents clueless
POS: parent over shoulder
I worked on it and none of my 30 friends used the cell phone language as secret language. I disagree with this case in India.
2.SMS txting as a Contributing Factor to Declining Literacy[3]
The paper in no way advocates that society should abstain from
the use of new technologies, but does advise conscious action and a degree of caution with regard to the ways in which such advances are taken up.
3.Texting satisfaction: does age and gender make a difference?[4]
This report says that females feel easier to text than males and it says as age
Increases the texting lingo and texting frequency decreases .I agree with this
because we can see that teens use texting lingo more and older people don’t text much
4. Text Messaging and IM: Linguistic Comparison of American College Data[5]
While instant messaging (IM) via computers is well-entrenched in the United States, text messaging on mobile phones is a more recent technology in America. To investigate the emergence of American texting, this study compared text messages and IMs produced by American college students with respect to transmission length, emoticons and lexical shortenings, and sentential punctuation.
how much it is used and understood.
5. Talk about Texting: Attitudes towards Mobile Phones [7]
More than half the world’s population now has access to mobile phones. While these devices enable spoken communication, many users (especially teenagers and young adults) heavily employ them for sending and receiving written text messages. There is a growing literature on the linguistic features of text messages, but much less is objectively known about user attitudes towards texting (or towards mobile phones in general). Drawing upon data from a cross-cultural mobile phone project involving university students in Sweden, US, Italy, Japan, and Korea, this study examines user perspectives on mobile communication, with special emphasis on texting functions.
6.SMS Text Analysis: Language, Gender and Current Practices[8]
Data:
INDIAN MOBILE PHONE USERSMOBILE PHONE USERS IN INDIA |
I also focuced on the internet users as the language on the cellphone also same as the texting lingo in internet chat
INETRNET USERS IN INDIA |
This is a snapshot from the website internetworldstats[9]
These facts tell that in India we can say this is the time of raising of Cellphone language .
USERS OF TEXTING LANGUAGE AT IIT MADRAS [11]
I made survey in Facebook how many uses the texting language while messaging ,110 college students answered this and this survey is made in November of the year 2011
USERS OF TEXTING LINGO IN INDIA |
78 responded yes, 21 opted for no and remaining 12 uses it sometimes
IS IT HARMFUL [12]
I have got some data whether texting language harms the writing skills or not
DOES THE TEXTING LINGO EFFECTS WRING SKILLS? |
Web sites like www.transl8it.com , www.noslang.com
and www.lingo2word.com translate Web lingo into plain English, and vice versa, which can facilitate parent-child communication
Here are snapshots from the above websites
WEBSITE THAT CONVERTS TEXTING LINGO TO PLAIN ENGLISH AND VICE VERSA |
A snapshot from lingo2word.com
It is a website which converts the plain English to cell phone lingo
Also from cell phone lingo to Plain English
Here is a similar snapshot from an other website www.transl8it.com
xapsudup
The Bible in Mobile Text Message Language[13]
It begins "In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth,"
The Bible Society in Australia scripture director George Rodriguez said only the spelling of the Bible had been changed for the project, not the language
In the bible published by that society
And the website textament has the lingo bible
My observation of the milestones of texting language
Some milestones in changing of the texting language.I texting lingo evolved to
Because one should apply pressure while texting on a keypad of a cellphone
Excessive texting results in sore thumbs ,so one need to text in short
So there raised a need for inventing new words for texing language
CAUSE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEXTING LINGO |
CONCLUSION:
Not Everyone Thinks Cell phone texting Slang Is Bad News
"The use of language in a new way is really a good thing," said Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., linguistics professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and author of "YOU'RE WEARING THAT? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation." He says "It means you're adapting. And we often find that young people are at the forefront of language change."
"You need to use language that's appropriate to the context, just as you need to dress in a way that's appropriate to the context," Tannen says
Acknoweledgements
I would like to thank all my friends, relatives, and professors for helping me write this article. I would like to include few special mentions without whose help the work would remain incomplete.
1.My 110 friends who answered to the question in facebook.
2. Professor Shreesh Chaudhary, who guided and helped me to design the article
3.My friend Prudhvi reviewed through it and made necessary changes.
[1] Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/1882851
[3] Author: Dr. Brad Warren
[4] Vimala Balakrishnan ,Paul H. P. Yeow Multimedia University
[5] Authors: Rich Ling Naomi Telenor R&D, University of Michigan And S. Baron,American University
[6] Betty A. Kleen, Nicholls State University, betty.kleen@nicholls.edu
Lynn Heinrichs, Elon University, lheinrichs@elon.edu
[7] Naomi S. Baron ,American University ,Washington, DC USA ,nbaron@american.edu
[8] By Muhammad Shaban Rafi
[9] This contains the stats of internet users in the countries of asia http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia/in.htm
[10] jagdish Rebello , a phd Senior Director & Principal Analyst, Communications & Consumer Electronics posted http://www.isuppli.com/Mobile-and-Wireless-Communications/News/Pages/India-Cell-Phone-Penetration-to-Reach-97-Percent-in-2014.aspx
[11] This is the link to the survey question I asked in facebook https://www.facebook.com/questions/245799328806837/
[12] In this website a poll was conducted with the question “Does text messaging harm students' writing skills?.”
[13] Mark Hankins, March 2009 he published this book http://www.textament.com
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