Canada - Some people think the habit of exchanging short messages, or SMS can be destructive to the language and produce a generation of 'blind' language. Not so according to Canadian scientists.
Three scientists from Simon Fraser University, Universite de Montreal and the University of Ottawa conducted a study on the habits send SMS. The result, they agreed that send SMS lure people more creative.
Christian Guilbault from Simon Fraser University and two colleagues intend to find out how to write a custom SMS affects the people of Canada, through a research project named Text4Science.
"A lot of people think, the language skills to be eroded and deteriorated because of SMS. Young was said to have no idea how to spell a word. In our opinion it is not true," Guilbault said.
As reported by The Globe and Mail, Tuesday (10/04/2012), Guilbault and his colleagues would like to analyze this new form of communication for mobile users demonstrate creativity in using language.
Research project that began in December, collecting more than 8,000 English-language SMS to be analyzed. The initial findings of this study show, the participants generally use 10 different ways to declare an expression.
For example, for something really funny, they have expressed a variety of ways, including three variants of 'LOL' alias Laughing Out Loud. Another example of the word 'Ok', an SMS can be expressed in a language with 12 different ways, such as 'okay' and 'k'. The word 'see you', is more often expressed with a 'c u'.
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