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Since this is my first post, possibly i may not be writing as good as i want to. However, i am sure, thanks to Madhu ( i fondly call him madhe ), i am sure i will improve with time.

So, i thought, what would be my first article, but it is very difficult to decide, since i dont have anything interesting to share with all of us, except philosophical musings and tech stuff(The latter, only facts). So i thought, let me share my experience at IITMadras so far. It may be boring, in case, you are welcome to inform me the same

I studied my intermediate +1 and +2 at Narayana junior college, S.R.Nagar, hyderabad. Now the immediate mindset of the viewer will be 'Bah,one more useless fellow from andhra pradesh'. Not your fault at all. But may be i am a little different. Never mind. I joined IITMadras with a wish to do electrical sciences. I have completed 3 semesters here and am happy. But i have inferred few things from my stay

1. If you want to get into IIT, you have to be a bit cranky and a lot lazy. Yep, you got that right. I feel all of us are some where eccentric, with varying degrees, from more than acceptable to far more away from tolerable! Laziness, yes, it is the driving force for most of invention. Let me give few examples from our daily life. Why is the mouse there for? since we are lazy to type things every time(if you are a user of ubuntu, you will realise that i may be wrong, since keyboard makes us lazy to touch the mouse). I myself am a very lazy bug. sometimes, i am too lazy to even fetch water from the kitchen and go thirsty all the while. I told my friend, laziness is good sometimes. He gave an awesome reply. 'When was the last time laziness was actually harmful'. So true.

2. Education is actually easier here(atleast so far). I feel everyone can write the exams event without even reading, except few course, which my colleagues reading this article must have already comprehended(yep, i am talking about ID and BT). It is our sheer recklessness that makes us lose marks(especially in my case).

I will stop here, but will be back if i get some awesome thought i can share with all of us.

TEXTING LINGO ( r u gng 2 c dis?)

TEXTING LINGO

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

The paper is all about how texting language was developed, my work on websites that Convert texting language to plain English, this discusses whether cellphone language is good or bad, short note on cellphone bible and my survey that how many uses texting lingo in facebook with 110 members answering it.

Introduction:

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]

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]

Hey see this  !!!  girls use SMS more than boys

graph showing usage of texting between girls and boys

Data:

INDIAN MOBILE PHONE USERS

MOBILE PHONE USERS IN INDIA

In wiki  I have seen    945,708,379 (94 crore )mobile phone users  are present in India by august 2011 Below I presented it in pie diagram 72 % of the population of india uses mobile phones

 

 

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]

 

     India Cell Phone Penetration to Reach 97 %  [10]

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.

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[1] Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/1882851

1Authors: Ann Pleshette Murphy and Jennifer Allen

[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?.”

http://www.edutopia.org/poll-text-messaging-writing-skills                                                

[13] Mark Hankins, March 2009 he published this book http://www.textament.com


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