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08 Feb 08
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LONDON (Reuters) - R U cycle? Book! Fancy an adds down the sub? There's a gr8 new carnage. It may look like gobbledegook, but the most streetwise of teenagers would have no trouble translating and responding to it in kind. A new language is being developed by mobile phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets. Key words are replaced by the first alternative that comes up on a mobile phone using predictive text -- changing "cool" into "book", "awake" into "cycle", "beer" into adds", "pub" into "sub" and "barmaid" into "carnage". Those expressing excitement with the old-fashioned text phrase "woohoo!", now use the far more hip "zonino!" instead. The replacement words -- technically paragrams, but commonly known as textonyms, adaptonyms or cellodromes -- are becoming part of regular teen banter. And the older generation -- many of whom already struggle with simple text language -- are being thrown into yet deeper confusion. Continued...
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LONDON (Reuters) - R U cycle? Book! Fancy an adds down the sub? There's a gr8 new carnage. It may look like gobbledegook, but the most streetwise of teenagers would have no trouble translating and responding to it in kind. A new language is being developed by mobile phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets. Key words are replaced by the first alternative that comes up on a mobile phone using predictive text -- changing "cool" into "book", "awake" into "cycle", "beer" into adds", "pub" into "sub" and "barmaid" into "carnage". Those expressing excitement with the old-fashioned text phrase "woohoo!", now use the far more hip "zonino!" instead. The replacement words -- technically paragrams, but commonly known as textonyms, adaptonyms or cellodromes -- are becoming part of regular teen banter. And the older generation -- many of whom already struggle with simple text language -- are being thrown into yet deeper confusion. Continued...
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