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Article: LINGUISTS DON'T LOL OVER TEXT MESSAGES.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2003
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Byline: Melissa Trujillo Associated Press
MILWAUKEE -- The text messages on Margarete Stettner's cell phone are filled with shortcuts -- like "G2G" for "got to go" and "LOL" instead of "laugh out loud." Even when she isn't using her phone, the lingo sometimes makes its way into what she writes.
"It does affect, sometimes, how I do my schoolwork," the 13-year-old from Hartland, Wis., said as she shopped in a mall, where cellular phones are as common as low-cut jeans. "Instead of a Y-O-U, I put a U."
That alarms some linguists, who worry that the proliferation of text messaging -- where cell phone users type and send short messages to other ...