Language on the cell phone Thota Madhu Sudhan Rao CE10B060 Department of CIVIL ENGINEERING IIT MADRAS NOVEMBER 16th 2011

Abstract The paper is all about how texting language was developed, my work on websites that Convert texting language to plain English, this discusses whether cellphone language is good or bad, short note on cellphone bible and my survey that how many uses texting lingo in facebook with 110 members answering it.

Introduction: In 2009, the United Nations reported that more than 60% of the world’s population has access to mobile phones. Text and instant messaging have introduced a new shorthand vocabulary for communication in today’s world. 82 million people send text messages regularly in the U.S.Telecom minister announced that every person in India will get a mobile by 2020.The cell phone language was getting changed due to the introdutction of T9 dictionary, Qwerty keypad and touch pad .On December 3, 1992 in the United Kingdom, the first SMS messaging was used in a commercial sent through a Vodafone GSM network. The SMS message was sent by Neil Papworth with the use of a desktop computer. Since 1995 only a few messages were sent through SMS. But during the year 2000, there has been a gradual increase in the use of text messaging1

Literature Review: I have read some thesis papers, termpapers on language on the cellphone and here I presented 9 of them.

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1. The Secret Language of Teens2 The report says how the teens use the texting lingo which can’t be understood by their elders. Some words in that report: KPC: keeping parents clueless POS: parent over shoulder I worked on it and none of my 30 friends used the cell phone language as secret language. I disagree with this case in India.

2.SMS txting as a Contributing Factor to Declining Literacy3 The paper in no way advocates that society should abstain from the use of new technologies, but does advise conscious action and a degree of caution with regard to the ways in which such advances are taken up.

3.Texting satisfaction: does age and gender make a difference?4 This report says that females feel easier to text than males and it says as age Increases the texting lingo and texting frequency decreases .I agree with this because we can see that teens use texting lingo more and older people don’t text much

4. Text Messaging and IM: Linguistic Comparison of American College Data5 1

Authors: Ann Pleshette Murphy and Jennifer Allen

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Author: Dr. Brad Warren

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Vimala Balakrishnan ,Paul H. P. Yeow Multimedia University

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While instant messaging (IM) via computers is well-entrenched in the United States, text messaging on mobile phones is a more recent technology in America. To investigate the emergence of American texting, this study compared text messages and IMs produced by American college students with respect to transmission length, emoticons and lexical shortenings, and sentential punctuation.

5.A comparison of student use and understanding of Text messaging shorthand at two universities6 Text and instant messaging have introduced a new shorthand vocabulary for communication in today’s world. Yet, little research has been done to-date on how much it is used and understood. The current study examines student use and understanding of text messaging acronyms and shorthand at two universities.

6. Talk about Texting: Attitudes towards Mobile Phones 7

More than half the world’s population now has access to mobile phones. While these devices enable spoken communication, many users (especially teenagers and young adults) heavily employ them for sending and receiving written text messages. There is a growing literature on the linguistic features of text messages, but much less is objectively known about user attitudes towards texting (or towards mobile phones in general). Drawing upon data from a cross-cultural mobile phone project involving university students in Sweden, US, Italy, Japan, and Korea, this study examines user perspectives on mobile communication, with special emphasis on texting functions. 5

Authors: Rich Ling Naomi Telenor R&D, University of Michigan And S. Baron,American University 6

Betty A. Kleen, Nicholls State University, [email protected] Lynn Heinrichs, Elon University, [email protected] 7 Naomi S. Baron ,American University ,Washington, DC USA ,[email protected]

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7.SMS Text Analysis: Language, Gender and Current Practices8 In that report he surveyed and drawn the following chart

Data: In wiki I have seen 945,708,379 (94 crore )mobile phone users are present in India by august 2011 Below I presented it in pie diagram71.59 of the

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population

of

india

uses

mobile

phones

% OF MOBILE PHONE USERS IN INDIA (as of august 2011)

MOBILE PHONE USERS in INDIA (71.59%) PERSONS WITHOUT MOBILE PHONES(28.41%)

I also need to focus on the internet users as the language on the cellphone also same as the texting lingo in internet chat

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This is a snapshot from the website internetworldstats9 India Cell Phone Penetration to Reach 97 %

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These facts tell that in India we can say this is the time of raising of Cellphone language .

USERS OF TEXTING LANGUAGE AT IIT MADRAS 11 I made survey in Facebook how many uses the texting language while messaging ,110 college students answered this and this survey is made in November of the year 2011

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This contains the stats of internet users in the countries of asia http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia/in.htm 10

jagdish Rebello , a phd Senior Director & Principal Analyst, Communications & Consumer Electronics posted http://www.isuppli.com/Mobile-and-Wireless-

Communications/News/Pages/India-Cell-Phone-Penetration-to-Reach-97Percent-in-2014.aspx 11

This is the link to the survey question I asked in facebook https://www.facebook.com/questions/245799328806837/

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78 responded yes, 21 opted for no and remaining 12 uses it sometimes

IS IT HARMFUL 12 I have got some data whether texting language harms the writing skills or not

Web sites like www.transl8it.com , www.noslang.com 12

In this website a poll was conducted with the question “Does text messaging harm students' writing skills?.” http://www.edutopia.org/poll-text-messaging-writing-skills

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and www.lingo2word.com translate Web lingo into plain English, and vice versa, which can facilitate parent-child communication Here are snapshots from the above websites

A snapshot from lingo2word.com It is a website which converts the plain English to cell phone lingo Also from cell phone lingo to Plain English Here is a similar snapshot from an other website www.transl8it.com

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The Bible in Mobile Text Message Language13 It begins "In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth," The Bible Society in Australia scripture director George Rodriguez said only the spelling of the Bible had been changed for the project, not the language In the bible published by that society And the website textament has the lingo bible

My observation of the milestones of texting language Some milestones in changing of the texting language.I texting lingo evolved to Because one should apply pressure while texting on a keypad of a cellphone Excessive texting results in sore thumbs ,so one need to text in short So there raised a need for inventing new words for texing language

invention of messaging T9 DICTIONARY QWERTY KEYPAD

RESISTIVE TOUCHSCREEN CAPACITIVE TOUCHSCREEN

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Mark Hankins, March 2009 he published this book http://www.textament.com

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CONCLUSION: Not Everyone Thinks Cell phone texting Slang Is Bad News "The use of language in a new way is really a good thing," said Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., linguistics professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and author of "YOU'RE WEARING THAT? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation." He says "It means you're adapting. And we often find that young people are at the forefront of language change." "You need to use language that's appropriate to the context, just as you need to dress in a way that's appropriate to the context," Tannen says

Acknoweledgements I would like to thank all my friends, relatives, and professors for helping me write this article. I would like to include few special mentions without whose help the work would remain incomplete. 1.My 110 friends who answered to the question in facebook. 2. Professor Sreesh Chaudhary, who guided and helped me to design the article 3.My friend Prudhvi reviewed through it and made necessary changes.

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Language on the cell phone

the first SMS messaging was used in a commercial sent through a Vodafone ... I worked on it and none of my 30 friends used the cell phone language as.

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