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txt refers to the English language slang used on mobile phone SMS, although with the prevalence of predictive text input, this is now less common. It is an abbreviated form of English, similar to leet, but without the script kiddie content. Another example of this is AOL speak. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. ...
A received SMS being announced on a Nokia phone. ...
The ELinks web browser, set to Leet language, on the Leet language version of Google. ...
In computing, a script kiddie (occasionally script bunny, script kitty or skiddie) is a derogatory term for inexperienced crackers who use scripts and programs developed by others for the purpose of compromising computer accounts and files, and for launching attacks on whole computer systems (see DoS). ...
Internet slang (also AOL speak, AOLbonics — coined to sound like ebonics) consists of slang that users of the Internet have developed and utilized. ...
It became common due to the small number of characters allowed in a text message and the small keyboards on mobile phones. A received SMS being announced on a Nokia phone. ...
A computer keyboard is a peripheral modelled after the typewriter keyboard. ...
The aim of txt is to reduce the number of characters needed to put across a meaning. One casualty of this principle is that punctuation is widely disregarded. Punctuation marks are written symbols that do not correspond to either phonemes (sounds) of a spoken language nor to lexemes (words and phrases) of a written language, but which serve to organize or clarify written language. ...
txt devices Single letters can be used to replace words. Examples include: - Be becomes b
- See becomes c
- Are becomes r
- You becomes u
- Why becomes y
Equally, single digits can be used to replace words. Examples include: - Ate becomes 8
- For becomes 4
- To or Too becomes 2
Individual syllables can be replaced with a single letter or digit. Examples: This article discusses the unit of speech. ...
- Ate becomes 8
- Be becomes b
- For or Fore becomes 4
- (The above two can be combined for an example, where 'before' becomes 'b4').
More miscellaneous adaptions of characters include: - ss being replaced with $
- oo being replaced with %
Other transcriptions of slang or dialect terms can be used if they are shorter than the original. A good example of this is the way in which because, often pronounced as cos in English, is written like so, saving four characters.
Another device used in text language is the removal of vowels from a verb, such that a set of consonants remain, which should still be recognisable as a word. So, between could become btwn.
Equally, whole words may be omitted, especially pronouns. In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun is a pro-form that substitutes a noun or noun phrase with or without a determiner, such as you and they in English. ...
An example A typical text message might read: - hi m8 u k?-sry i 4got 2 cal u lst nite-y dnt we go c film 2moro
- This is 63 characters long.
This would 'translate' into standard English as so: Standard English is a general term for a form of written and spoken English that is considered the model for educated people. ...
- Hello mate. Are you okay? I am sorry that I forgot to call you last night. Why don't we go and see a film tommorrow?
- This is 126 characters long.
The txt version of this sentence is twice as short as the standard English version. | 
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