" For example, in a study I did of college students' instant messaging conversations, out of 11,718 words, only 31 were "online lingo" abbreviations, and only 90 were acronyms (of which 76 were LOL). In a study of college students' text messaging, my colleague Rich Ling and I found a few more lexical shortenings; yet the grand total of clear abbreviations was only 47 out of 1,473 words, which is hardly overwhelming."
I am rather surprised by these statistics. These days kids are always talking in online lingo, they even go as far as to use it in face to face conversations. With that being said to see that this study showed that out of over 11,000 words only 31 of them were considered to be online lingo is kind of amazing and to see that 76 of the 90 acronyms were "LOL" is pretty shocking to me.
Baron, N. S. (2009, March). Educational leadership. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Are-Digital-Media-Changing-Language¢.aspx
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