In this transcript, I am going to say and explain all of the key devices which relates to messaging and texting and compare it to how we speak.
One reason why the devices that people use to maintain brevity when messaging or texting is because of Abbreviation. Abbreviation is when you shorten the words down and change the letters in the sentence when you are speaking to someone. For example from the transcript during a text conversation it says, “Kl” when it means cool or another word like hello and they are just trying to shorten it the conversation so it won’t take too long to text. Another example is, “G2G lesson now” Which means got to go to lesson now which combines it into one word instead of six words.
Even while we are speaking to someone else, you can tell by the language on how they speak and how it can relate to texting or messaging. Even during a conversation, it shows and tells us what they are saying, for example, “My coursework done so it’s cajj (Big Smile Face)” it’s shows us a picture of a smiley face and it tells us what it is afterwards. Another example is, “(y) (Thumbs Up)” which shows that if it doesn’t show a picture then it will tell us what it is right next to it. There are some homophones which are used in the transcript. A homophone means the same sound but different meaning. For example, “too, to, two” or even “m8 hate ate” etc. This is one device that people use to maintain brevity when texting or messaging.
Another reason why people use devices to maintain brevity while texting or messaging is because of omission. Omission means removing parts of a word in a sentence, for example in the transcript it says, “I ain’t got no hw” which means I haven’t got any homework. People want to shorten the sentences while they are speaking to each other because it is quicker for them to text. This is one reason why people use devices to maintain brevity while texting or messaging.
In addition, another reason why people use devices to maintain brevity while texting or messaging is because they want to try and influence each other in the language that they use. Slang words are a common technique which is often used in many young people’s conversations while they are texting or messaging each other. This is another reason why people use devices to maintain brevity while texting or messaging.
Undoubtedly the most important reason why people use devices to maintain brevity while texting or messaging is because of acronyms. Acronyms means abbreviation made up of the first letters of each word, for example in the transcript it says, “Wuu2?” which means “What are you up to?” Another example is, “Lol” which means “Laugh out loud”. Even in the transcripts, it shows us the similarities and it shows us the differences on how people talk to each other, one page has a conversation talking in slang and the other page has a conversation talking in spoken language. This is the most important reason why people use devices to maintain brevity while texting or messaging.
Features such as omissions and abbreviations and acronyms in a conversation tell us a lot about the person. Sometimes when they use certain features, it can tell us about the relationship with one another. In the transcript they also use symbols as they send a message to someone, for example they use ellipsis “…” and explanation marks “!” and brackets “()”. While reading the transcript, I read about a couple of teenagers talking to each other who are having a casual conversation in school talking about lessons and sports and they were mostly talking in slang rather than spoken language.
In my opinion, I think that if they were in another situation like a job interview as an example, they wouldn’t be talking in slang but they would talk in spoken language because they would have to be more polite and speak more sense and appropriate and the majority of adults use spoken language rather than slang.
I do not think that there are many differences in these conversations in the transcript, they seem very similar, and there are a few similarities between these characters. They seem to be the same age because they both go to school and they always hang out with each other and talk a lot about the same subjects like school, sports and media and they all use abbreviations, omissions and acronyms to shorten their sentences as they find it better and quicker and better and cooler.
Young people have been texting by using slang words for a long time and I think it is even more common today because they would use their mobile phones or even the internet. The way that we speak to each other relates to our generations. The younger the generation use more slang and omissions and abbreviations and acronyms, the older generation use more spoken language.
These are the devices which people use to maintain brevity while texting or messaging and this is how I compared it to how people speak differently.
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