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The vocabulary is rooted from text messagesthat initially contained only 120 characters, forcing users to come up witheconomical approaches to communication within these limitations. Abbreviationssuch as TC (take care), LOL (laughing out loud), TY (thank you)2nite(tonight) and etcetera are common features in the ‘new language’ includingothers like 2nite (tonight). Other complicated abbreviations include ‘CWOT’,’IDC’ to mean complete waste of time and I don’t care respectively.

Theuse of such abbreviations may be an outlier and texting may actually reduceteenage literacy, reading skills and fluency in spelling. The style of textinghas been found to prop up even in teenage student’s school texts andassignments. The ‘new language’ that is used by teenagers on their phones has anegative impact on their literacy. Apartfrom textism, it is reported that most teenage students have numerous problemsin basic literacy from spellings, punctuation, language and grammar. Besides,affecting teenage student literacy, problems related to excessive textmessaging have a significant effect on the teachers since they have a hard timerating tests and assignments that are mostly written in texting style.