Going Like Sixty
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Parents are texting. So teenagers must communicate differently. Phone addiction prevents them from kicking the connection, so they change the text. “Cool” becomes “book”; “awake” for “cycle” Even woohoo has become zonino. It’s using the predictive feature on phones to keep the language their use their own.
 According to David Crystal, a language expert at Bangor University in Wales, the new language is the latest in a long history of kids' linguistic creations.
"Everybody plays with language," he told Reuters. "Playing with language isn't new. It's absolutely normal for kids to experiment like this.
"And it's important to remind adults that they did exactly the same thing when they were kids, they just didn't do it on mobile phones."
Some of the most popular textonyms show intriguing links between the originally intended word and the one the predictive text throws up -- "eat" becomes "fat" and "kiss" becomes "lips", "home" is "good" and the vodka brand "Smirnoff" becomes "poison".
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| Victoria Tremlin on Feb 9, 08 35 Trends 44 Comments |
Thanks so much for sharing this, its a perfect example of youth trend tracking that i need to include in my dissertation x |
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