ShortSpeechTheory

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Language is not becoming more simplified.
People are able to identify and decipher what each other are saying based on their own knowledge of the already established rules of english and communication

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The Theory
English is evolving as a written language an words are being changed, dropped, or replaced.

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Rúa, P. (2005). SHORTENING DEVICES IN TEXT MESSAGING: A MULTILINGUAL APPROACH. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 106(2), 139-155. Retrieved from https://t.co/k6MHOiBbAB

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Text messaging
- allows users to be creative and develop their own rules for in-group communication
- Space saving by use of emojis, Phonetic Respelling, Initializing, Clipping, and Abbreviation

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Emojis
Pictoral shortening of speech
🍎📅👨‍⚕️🚫 - 4 words
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away - 8 words

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The Phenomena
- Twitter has advanced the idea of shortened speech
- People are forced to use emojis an shortened speech in addition to normal English to get heir ideas out.

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Agarwal, A., Xie, B., Vovsha, I., Rambow, O., & Passonneau, R. (2011, June). Sentiment analysis of twitter data. In Proceedings of the workshop on languages in social media (pp. 30-38). Association for Computational Linguistics.

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84.1% of "tokens" are what we expect to find in the english language
4.2% are twitter specific ( @,#,emojis)
11.7% are not found in english language ("Txt" speech, misspellings)

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Twitter
-150 characters
Txt Speek( text messaging)
-Space saving in speech writing
Emoticons/emojis
- Pictures shorten required characters