{"id":391,"date":"2012-12-10T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T08:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kamaxi.com\/WP\/?p=391"},"modified":"2013-03-15T06:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T06:08:05","slug":"how-does-texting-influence-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kamaxi.com\/blogs\/how-does-texting-influence-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"How does Texting influence the English language?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the very first text message was sent in 1992, no one realized the influence it would have in the worlds of business, education, security, crime and our social lives.\u00a0 But within a decade of its inception, the world grasped hold of it and ran with it like an Olympian.<\/p>\n

Text messages were only intended to be 160 characters or less and are sometimes called SMS (or Short Message Service).\u00a0 When text messaging became popular, the vast majority of cell phones only came with a standard phone keyboard.\u00a0 The world would have to wait until about 2001 for Palm to launch the Treo that came with a full QWERTY keyboard layout.\u00a0 Because of this and the limits on characters, abbreviations became necessary.\u00a0 Eventually, a set of common abbreviations became standard to ease understanding.<\/p>\n

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Single letters can replace words<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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