Re: OT (?): Abbvs in txt msgs, & its poss f-ect on Nglish

Staving Danny Wier:
>My gf sent me this lnk:
>http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/02/13/text.messaging.ap/index.html
>which m/b
>a poss conlang ref, hope u like it ;)
it ocrs 2 me tht txt msg lngo is a lngwij gm ov srts. Hwvr, wn I us txt, I
alwys rit stndrd Nglish.

Two language games I played at school - Mixed Languages, whereby one would
repeatedly switch language in mid-sentence, using a mixture of English,
French, Latin and German; and Chemical Insults, whereby one would inform a
friend that he was a boron erbium potassium, or even a fluorine actinium
iodine einsteinium nitrogen gold francium silver diiodide.

Pete Bleackley

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