Harry's English Journal

What devices do people use to maintain brevity when messaging/texting? How does this relate to the way we speak?
Texting and messaging uses a variety of writing techniques that could change the conversations meaning or they can shorten the length of the conversation but the writing techniques can also determine the type of person you’re talking to and how they can react in certain situations of writing.
In the transcript a texting conversation there are many language techniques to be identified the first language technique is a contraction-(when letters are omitted together for example txt instead of people writing text they remove the e giving the same sound but shortening their time of typing) one of the participants in the transcript starts the chat with kl which is a contraction instead of the person making there texting time longer by using words like kool its easier to say kl and also it’s a modern way to say it.
The younger generations of people shorten most words as much as they can I think its not that they cant be bothered I think that its just a fact of fashion and everyone being in the same group. People of today also like to be lazy in there own way so anyway to become this the chance will be jumped at. There’s not a problem with being lazy just as long as your not lazy away from the texting that’s why the older generations put us in the same group, I personally believe that its because they cant understand the younger language and how it works that they have to group us together because they don’t understand us.
Language techniques in my opinion make a convo funny (if you spotted that I wrote convo instead conversation.) and you can identify what sort of humour the person has and what sort of “banta” you can get away with.
The language techniques identify the relationship between the people because people who don’t know each other or don’t have a good relationship will not have “banta” ,“banta” is just literally having a joke and a little cuss with a person and it can be a way to flirt with people as well this is what is now known to the younger generation as “flanta”.
In the text conversation transcript one of the people texting adds and emoticon to the conversation this helps add emotion to the text and also you can identify what mood and what facial expression the person texting has one of the people texting “my coursework done so its cajj  (big smile face)” just by adding this smile face you can identify that this person is happy that they have finished their coursework and you get the feeling that he is relieved.
One of the people texting adds a logogram when at the end of the conversation he leaves it with G2G which in English means got to go. But by making it shorter and more of a language that the youth of today use there are many words that use logogram and in the transcript they are talking when one says “I have to do my coursework 4 tomorrow (crying face) this is in my opinion a lot easier to read when it has numbers muddled up in it.
In the transcript one of the boys talking is talking about how much p.e practical they do when he used the merged words context “yh only on Monday I think theory or 3 dunno” which is short for I don’t know it makes it easier to put two words in one but making it sound the same it uses a lot less words when writ in this from and us kids of this day and age are lazy so anyway possible to get out of
A lot of the boys texting add letters to a word where it is not necessary most of the time it’s the word yeah which the boys change the word to “yhhh” this emphasises the word and gets the point across by making the person sound excited or sad.
The boys also use upper and lower case words this helps emphasise the tone of there voice when talking, you can identify what mode the person is in by the case they use when typing when your reading this the voice in your head reads it out in different tone and with lower case its like a mellow quiet tone but when put into upper case it becomes more loud and excited or angry this depends on what is written before for example “harry come home” you read this as in a mellow tone but when put in upper case “HARRY COME HOME” it makes the context of the texting become more what seems to be like anger and personally if this was a message from my mother I wouldn’t be worried in the slightest for the first text but id more likely to be scared of the second text it sounds more likely to be in a angry form.
So from my ways that texting techniques are used I can identify that no one would use these in speech and they are only used in texting. Someone who genuinely spoke like that would possibly be looked at as someone who needs to learn to speak in better English form there is a place for using these techniques.

just incase your wondering why I haven’t answerd questions but I have been writting pages on text and I have been bbm’ing people from differant places and countries just to see what langauge techniques they use although I would want want your feed back I amd reading over and learning from my mistake and my brothers girlfriend is a training english teacher and she is marking it
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cheeres sir for your previous feed back.

one langauge feature I have never understood and don’t really know what its called is when people insert numbers in to a word, there is no need for thisnto be put in but I don’t think people do it because its cool or fashionable but to be honest it really does get on my nerves “alr1g4t m8” except from the second word which I understand I don’t get why people would do this but I don’t really have people my age do it I think its those that have got there first phone and try to talk cool.