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84-405: TXT or txt may refer to: Technology [ edit ] SMS language or txt, an Internet slang language commonly used on short message service phones .txt, a filename extension for text files Text messaging on a phone using letters and symbols Trusted Execution Technology , Intel's implementation of Trusted Computing TXT records ,

168-555: A conventional and stable form, either as a dialect or as a language. As a result, (as much as it is also a consequence), notable lexicographical efforts and publications (e.g., dictionaries) dealing specifically with SMS language have yet to emerge. Some experts have suggested that the usage of "ungrammatical" text message slang has enabled SMS to become a part of "normal language" for many children. Many informal attempts at documenting SMS have been done. For example, service provider Vodacom provides its clients with an SMS dictionary as

252-400: A five-hole paper-tape punch and reader. Once the paper tape had been prepared, the message could be transmitted in minimum time. Telex billing was always by connected duration, so minimizing the connected time saved money. However, it was also possible to connect in "real-time", where the sender and the recipient could both type on the keyboard and these characters would be immediately printed on

336-400: A high degree of certainty by the "answerback", which is a transmission-control enquiry character . At the beginning of the message, the sender would transmit a WRU ( Who are you? ) code, and the recipient machine would automatically initiate a response which was usually encoded in a rotating drum with pegs, much like a music box . The position of the pegs sent an unambiguous identifying code to

420-519: A high degree of resilience through diversely routed dual-path network configurations. After privatization of the telecommunications network under Margaret Thatcher's government at the start of the 1980s, Mercury Communications also provided a telex network, based on T200-series switching equipment supplied by the Swiss company Hasler in 1986 (after 1987 a member of the Ascom company). In 1996 Mercury

504-427: A live operator. A TWX customer would place a call to the 10A/B board operator for Baudot–ASCII calls, ASCII–Baudot calls, and also TWX conference calls . The code and speed conversion was facilitated by a special service unit made by Western Electric . Multiple code and speed conversion units were placed at each operator position. During the conversion to Telex II, the remaining 3-row Baudot customers were converted to

588-514: A manufacturing corporation See also [ edit ] TTX (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TXT . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TXT&oldid=1220751270 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

672-474: A number of IBM Officevision, Digital Equipment Corporation ALL-IN-1 and Microsoft Mail systems. In addition to permitting email to be sent to telex, formal coding conventions adopted in the composition of telex messages enabled automatic routing of telexes to email recipients. The Teletypewriter Exchange Service (TWX) was developed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in

756-472: A small keypad to generate each letter, and messages were generally limited to 160 characters (or 1280 bits ). Additionally, SMS language made text messages quicker to type, while also avoiding additional charges from mobile network providers for lengthy messages exceeding 160 characters. SMS language is similar to telegraphs' language where charges were by the word. It seeks to use the fewest letters to produce ultra-concise words and sentiments in dealing with

840-676: A study, though SMS language is faster to write, more time is needed to read it compared to conventional English. Although various other research supports the use of SMS language, the popular notion that text messaging is damaging to the linguistic development of young people persists and many view it as a corruption of the standard form of language. Welsh journalist and television reporter John Humphrys has criticized SMS language as "wrecking our language". The author cites ambiguity as one problem posed, illustrating with examples such as "lol", which may either be interpreted to mean "laughing out loud", "lots of love", and "little old lady" depending on

924-532: A supplement to their cell phone purchase. Vodacom provides lists of abbreviations and acronyms with their meanings in its web site. Many other efforts have been made to provide SMS dictionaries on the Internet. Usually an alphabetical list of "words" used in SMS language is provided, along with their intended meanings. Text messages can also be "translated" to standard language on certain web sites as well, although

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1008-523: A telex address, e.g., "14910 ERIC S", where 14910 is the subscriber number, ERIC is an abbreviation for the subscriber's name (in this case Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson in Sweden) and S is the country code or location code. Solutions also exist for the automatic routing of messages to different telex terminals within a subscriber organization, by using different terminal identities, e.g., "+T148". The country codes (formally, network identification codes) for

1092-566: A text message with the multiple steps involved. The use of apostrophes cannot be attributed to users attempting to disambiguate words that might otherwise be misunderstood without it. There are few cases in English where leaving out the apostrophe causes misunderstanding of the message. For example, "we're" without the apostrophe could be misread as "were". Even so, these are mostly understood correctly despite being ambiguous, as readers can rely on other cues such as part of sentence and context where

1176-580: A text message, the difference being that the real tone of the SMS sender is less easily discerned merely by the emoticon. Using a smiling face can be perceived as being sarcastic rather than happy, thus the reader has to decide which it is by looking at the whole message. Use of punctuation and capitalization to form emoticons distracts from the more traditional function of such features and symbols. Nevertheless, uses do differ across individuals and cultures. For example, overpunctuation may simply be used to communicate paralinguistic aspects of communication without

1260-696: A type of Domain Name System record; see List of DNS record types Arts and media [ edit ] Tomorrow X Together , a South Korean boy band TxT (film) , a 2006 Filipino horror film Other uses [ edit ] txt , the ISO639-3 language code for Citak language , a Papuan language spoken in Citak-Mitak kecamatan (subdistrict), Mappi Regency, Indonesia TXT e-solutions an international software development and consulting company Docetaxel , an anti-cancer drug Textron ,

1344-453: Is a dialect strongly if not completely derivative of the English language. This may not be so. Such generalization may have risen from the fact that mobile phones had only been able to support a limited number of default languages in the early stages of its conception and distribution. A mobile operating system (OS) such as Symbian and language packs enable the linguistic localization of products that are equipped with such interfaces, where

1428-486: Is crucial when interpreting textese , and it is precisely this shortfall that critics cite as a reason not to use it (although the English language in general, like many other languages , has many words that have different meanings in different contexts). SMS language does not always obey or follow standard grammar , and additionally the words used are not usually found in standard dictionaries or recognized by language academies . The feature of "reactive tokens" that

1512-575: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages SMS language Short Message Service ( SMS ) language , textism , or textese is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging , and occasionally through Internet -based communication such as email and instant messaging . Features of early mobile phone messaging encouraged users to use abbreviations. 2G technology made text entry difficult, requiring multiple key presses on

1596-497: Is often intended to be sarcastic ^ The exclamation mark symbol ! is scalable depending on the amount of shock, the most common use is !!! Combinations can shorten single or multiple words: In one American study, researchers found that less than 20% of messages used SMS language. Looking at his own texting history, the study's author, linguist David Crystal , said that just 10% of his messages used SMS language. According to research done by Dr. Nenagh Kemp of

1680-473: Is still in operation but not in the sense described in the CCITT Blue Book documentation. iTelegram offers telex-like service without subscriber telex lines. Individual subscribers can use Deskmail, a Windows program that connects to the iTelegram telex network, using IP as the last mile . Telex has been mostly superseded by fax , email , and SWIFT , although radiotelex (telex via HF radio )

1764-464: Is the use of "tmr" instead of "tomorrow". Nevertheless, there are no standard rules for the creation and use of SMS languages. Any word may be shortened (for example, "text" to "txt"). Words can also be combined with numbers to make them shorter (for example, "later" to "l8r"), using the numeral "8" for its homophonic quality. Some may view SMS language to be a dialect of the English language , that

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1848-530: Is ubiquitous in Internet Relay Chat (IRC), is also commonly found in SMS language. Reactive tokens include phrases or words like "yeah I know", which signifies a reaction to a previous message. In SMS language, however, the difference is that many words are shortened unlike in spoken speech. Some tokens of the SMS language can be likened to a rebus , using pictures and single letters or numbers to represent whole words (e.g., "i <3 u", which uses

1932-582: The University of Tasmania , the evolution of textese is inherently coupled to a strong grasp of grammar and phonetics. David Crystal has countered the claims that SMS has a deleterious effect on language with numerous scholarly studies. The findings are summarized in his book Txtng: the Gr8 Db8 . In his book, Crystal argues that: He further observes that this is by no means a cause for bad spelling, where in fact, texting may lead to an improvement in

2016-435: The "translations" are not always universally accepted. Many people are likely to use these abbreviations in lower case letters. Entire sounds within words would often be replaced by a letter or digit that would produce a similar sound when read by itself: ^‡ k is sometimes considered passive aggressive ^† kk can also signal the end of a conversation ^§ using numbers phonetically

2100-548: The 1970s, under pressure from the Bell operating companies wanting to modernize their cable plant and lower the adjacent circuit noise that these telex circuits sometimes caused, Western Union migrated customers to a third option called F1F2. This F1F2 option replaced the DC voltage of the local and long distance options with modems at the exchange and subscriber ends of the telex circuit. Western Union offered connections from telex to

2184-632: The AT&;T Teletypewriter Exchange (TWX) system in May 1966 via its New York Information Services Computer Center. These connections were limited to those TWX machines that were equipped with automatic answerback capability per CCITT standard. USA-based telex users could send the same message to several places around the world at the same time, like email today, using the Western Union InfoMaster Computer. This involved transmitting

2268-804: The District of Columbia, Virginia, and West Virginia). 810 was assigned from Michigan southward and east of the Mississippi River to Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, and the entire South and 910 served west of the Mississippi to the Southwest and West Coast. TWX lines were configured with a special Class of Service to prevent interconnections with voice services. Western Union purchased the TWX system from AT&T in January 1969. The TWX system and

2352-470: The United States, commencing service on November 21, 1931. From 1942 to 1952, AT&T published progress with the system in the trade magazine TWX . It published articles that touched upon many aspects of the technology. From inception to 1962, access to the service was provided by operator-assisted, manual switching. By 1962, the network had grown to one hundred switchboard locations to handle

2436-510: The United States, was based on the major exchange where the customer's telex machine terminated. For example, all telex customers that terminated in the New York City exchange were assigned a telex number that started with a first digit "1". Further, all Chicago-based customers had telex numbers that started with a first digit of "2". This numbering plan was maintained by Western Union as the telex exchanges proliferated to smaller cities in

2520-619: The United States. Bell's original consent agreement limited it to international dial telephony, and the Western Union Telegraph Company had given up its international telegraphic operation in a 1939 bid to monopolize U.S. telegraphy by taking over ITT's postal, telegraph and telephone service (PTT) business. The result was a de-emphasis on telex in the U.S. and the creation of several international telex and telegraphy companies, collectively called IRCs: Bell Telex users had to select which IRC to use, and then append

2604-460: The United States. The Western Union Telex network was built on three levels of exchanges. The highest level was made up of the nine exchange cities previously mentioned. Each of these cities had the dual capability of terminating telex customer lines and setting up trunk connections to multiple distant telex exchanges. The second level of exchanges, located in large cities such as Buffalo, Cleveland, Miami, Newark, Pittsburgh and Seattle, were similar to

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2688-573: The amount of time a student spent online affected their writing. Cingel & Sundar (2012) hypothesized that the more text messages a student received and sent, the more grammar 'adaptations' their writing would contain. The results reflected a negative relationship between text messaging and adolescent grammar skills. They concluded that the more time the youth spend on technology, the more they become acquainted with "techspeak" or "textese," and thus allow their approach to grammar and academic writing to change. Telex The term "telex" may refer to

2772-401: The context in which it is being used. Ambiguous words and statements have always been present within languages. In English for example, the word "duck" can have more than one meaning. It could be referring to either the bird or the action, and such words are usually disambiguated by looking at the context in which it was written. The proliferation of SMS language has been criticized for causing

2856-400: The deterioration of English language proficiency and its rich heritage. Opponents of SMS language feel that it undermines the properties of the English language that have lasted throughout its long history. Furthermore, words within the SMS language that are very similar to their English-language counterparts can be confused by young users as the actual English spelling and can therefore increase

2940-447: The distant machine. Telex could also be used as a rudimentary but functional carrier of information from one IT system to another, in effect a primitive forerunner of electronic data interchange . The sending IT system would create an output (e.g., an inventory list) on paper tape using a mutually agreed format. The tape would be sent by telex and collected on a corresponding paper tape by the receiver and this tape could then be read into

3024-632: The effort to overcome time and space constraints. The advent of predictive text input and smartphones featuring full QWERTY keyboards may contribute to a reduction in the use of shortenings in SMS language. Recipients may have to interpret the abbreviated words depending on the context in which they are being used. For instance, should someone use ttyl, lol they may mean talk to you later, lots of love as opposed to talk to you later, laugh out loud . In another instance, if someone were to use omg, lol they may mean oh my god, laugh out loud as opposed to oh my god, lots of love . Therefore, context

3108-482: The ensuing years into the 1990s. The dominant supplier of the telex machines was Creed & Company , a division of the ITT Corporation . A separate service Secure Stream 300 (previously Circuit Switched Data Network) was a variant of telex running at 300 baud, used for telemetry and monitoring purposes by utility companies and banks, among others. This was a high-security virtual private wire system with

3192-462: The exchange equipment, provisioned the exchange trunks via the Western Union national microwave system and leased the exchange to customer site facilities from the local telephone company. Teleprinter equipment was originally provided by Siemens & Halske AG and later by Teletype Corporation. Initial direct international telex service was offered by Western Union, via W.U. International, in

3276-495: The final Symbian release (Symbian Belle) supported the scripts and orthographies of over 48 languages and dialects, though such provisions are by no means fully comprehensive as to the languages used by users all over the world. Researcher Mohammad Shirali-Shahreza (2007) further observes that mobile phone producers offer support "of local language of the country" within which their phone sets are to be distributed. Nevertheless, various factors contribute as additional constraints to

3360-430: The first countries to adopt telex are single letters, while other countries have two-letter codes. Some specialty services and American cities have three-letter network or location codes (such as MAS for Inmarsat or LSA for Los Angeles), and a few towns have four-letter codes (such as ROVE for Rockville, Maryland ). A major advantage of telex is that the receipt of the message by the recipient could be confirmed with

3444-410: The first word of a message may in fact, not be intentional, and may likely be due to the default capitalization setting of devices. Capitalization too may encode prosodic elements, where copious use may signify the textual equivalent of raised voice to indicate heightened emotion. Just as body language and facial expressions can alter how speech is perceived, emoji and emoticons can alter the meaning of

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3528-409: The forerunner of modern fax , email , and text messaging – both technically and stylistically. Abbreviated English (like "CU L8R" for "see you later") as used in texting originated with telex operators exchanging informal messages in real time – they became the first "texters" long before the introduction of mobile phones . Telex users could send the same message to several places around the world at

3612-627: The frequency of the apostrophe in SMS messages, since, even without user awareness, it will insert an apostrophe in many common words, such as "I'm", "I'll", and "I'd". Users may also use spellings that reflect their illocutionary force and intention rather than using the standard spelling. For example, the use of "haha" to signify "standard" laughter, and "muahaha" to encode perhaps more raucous or evil sound of laughter. In this, regional variations in spelling can also be observed. As such, SMS language, with its intergroup variations, also serves as an identity marker. SMS language has yet to be accepted as

3696-433: The highest level of exchanges in capability of terminating telex customer lines and setting up trunk connections. However, these second level exchanges had a smaller customer line capacity and only had trunk circuits connected to regional cities. The third level of exchanges, located in small to medium-sized cities, could terminate telex customer lines and had a single trunk group running to its parent exchange. Loop signaling

3780-462: The increasing popularity of free-to-use instant messaging systems like WhatsApp over pay-per-message SMS has decreased the need to use SMS language. Observations and classifications as to the linguistic and stylistic properties of SMS language have been made and proposed by Crispin Thurlow, López Rúa, and David Crystal. Although they are by no means exhaustive, some of these properties involve

3864-400: The keyboard. In 1963, AT&T implemented a new coding technology for TWX, called 4-row (64 characters in four key rows) based on the new Teletype Model 33 teleprinter using a 110-baud modem and a subset of the seven-bit ASCII code without lower-case letters. TWX was offered in both 3-row Baudot and 4-row ASCII versions up to the late 1970s. The modem for the 4-row ASCII service

3948-401: The literacy of the user. There are others who feel that the claims of SMS language being detrimental to English language proficiency are overrated. A study of the written work of 100 students by Freudenberg found that the actual amount of use of SMS language found in the written work was not very significant. Some features of SMS language such as the use of emoticons was not observed in any of

4032-470: The maximum value from them. The cost of TOR equipment has continued to fall. Although the system initially required specialised equipment, as of 2016 many amateur radio operators operate TOR, also known as radioteletype (RTTY), with special software and inexpensive hardware to connect computer sound cards to short-wave radios. Modern cablegrams or telegrams actually operate over dedicated telex networks, using TOR whenever required. Telex served as

4116-446: The measures taken to minimize space, time and cost constraints in SMS language, further constraints upon the varied nature and characteristics of languages worldwide add to the distinct properties and style of SMS language(s). The primary motivation for the creation and use of SMS language was to convey a comprehensible message using the fewest characters possible. This was for two reasons: first of all, telecommunication companies limited

4200-585: The message via paper tape to the InfoMaster Computer (dial code 6111) and specifying the destination addresses for the single text. In this way, a single message could be sent to multiple distant telex and TWX machines as well as delivering the same message to non-telex and non-TWX subscribers via Western Union Mailgram . International record carrier (IRC) was a term created by the Federal Communications Commission in

4284-552: The necessary routing digits. The IRCs converted between TWX and Western Union Telegraph Co. standards. Telex began in the UK as an evolution from the 1930s Telex Printergram service, appearing in 1932 on a limited basis. This used the telephone network in conjunction with a Teleprinter 7B and signalling equipment to send a message to another subscriber with a teleprinter, or to the Central Telegraph Office. In 1945, as

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4368-408: The need to create an emotion from it like so: "Hello!!!!". While vowels and punctuation of words in SMS language are generally omitted, David Crystal observes that apostrophes occur unusually frequently. He cites an American study of 544 messages, where the occurrence of apostrophes in SMS language is approximately 35 percent. This is unexpected, seeing that it is a hassle to input an apostrophe in

4452-577: The new service during the period 1979 to 1981. In February 1969, AT&T installed the first electronic switching system (ESS) for TWX service. It was a version of the No. 1ESS switch, arranged for data features (1ESS-AFD) in the Long Lines Department of AT&T. It had a capacity of handling 1,250 4-row teletypewriters. However, due to the purchase of TWX by Western Union, further installations were canceled. Western Union's Telex II system

4536-532: The number of characters per SMS and charged the user per SMS sent. To keep costs down, users had to find a way of being concise while still communicating the desired message. Secondly, typing on a phone is normally slower than with a keyboard, and capitalization is even slower. As a result, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization are largely ignored. The advent of touchscreen phones with large screens, swipe-based input methods and increasingly advanced autocomplete and spelling suggestion functionality, as well as

4620-402: The pictogram of a heart for love , and the letter u replaces you ). The dialect has a few hieroglyphs (codes comprehensible to initiates) and a range of face symbols. Prosodic features in SMS language aim to provide added semantic and syntactic information and context from which recipients can use to deduce a more contextually relevant and accurate interpretation. These may aim to convey

4704-425: The prevalence of spelling mistakes. Use of SMS language in schools tended to be seen as negative effects. There have been some reports in the media of children using SMS language for essays in school. The New Zealand Qualifications Authority refuted press reports that they had authorized the use of text abbreviations in exam answers, with a spokesperson saying that "there had been no change to guidelines and there

4788-430: The receiving IT system. One use of telex circuits, in use until the widescale adoption of X.400 and Internet email, was to facilitate a message handling system, allowing local email systems to exchange messages with other email and telex systems via a central routing operation, or switch. One of the largest such switches was operated by Royal Dutch Shell as recently as 1994, permitting the exchange of messages between

4872-480: The same time, like email today, using the Western Union InfoMaster Computer. This involved transmitting the message via paper tape to the InfoMaster Computer (dial code 6111) and specifying the destination addresses for the single text. In this way, a single message could be sent to multiple distant telex and TWX machines as well as delivering the same message to non-telex and non-TWX subscribers via Western Union Mailgram . Telex messages are routed by addressing them to

4956-486: The sender, so the sender could verify connection to the correct recipient. The WRU code would also be sent at the end of the message, so a correct response would confirm that the connection had remained unbroken during the message transmission. This gave telex a major advantage over group 2 fax, which had no inherent error-checking capability. The usual method of operation was that the message would be prepared off-line, using paper tape . All common telex machines incorporated

5040-525: The sending of official messages. Faramerz Dabhoiwala wrote in The Guardian in 2016: "modern usages that horrify linguistic purists in fact have deep historical roots. 'OMG' was used by a septuagenarian naval hero, admiral of the fleet John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher in a letter to Winston Churchill , in 1917". In general, SMS language thus permits the sender to type less and communicate more quickly than one could without such shortcuts. One example

5124-524: The service, the network, the devices, or the actual message. Point-to-point teleprinter systems had been in use long before telex exchanges were built in the 1930s. Teleprinters evolved from telegraph systems, and, like the telegraph, use binary signals , with mark and space logic represented by the presence or absence of a certain level of electric current. This differs from the analog telephone system, which used varying voltage to represent sound. For this reason, telex exchanges were entirely separate from

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5208-469: The space, time, and cost constraints of text messaging . It follows from how early SMS permitted only 160 characters and that carriers began charging a small fee for each message sent (and sometimes received). Together with the difficulty and inefficiency in creating messages, it led the desire for a more economical language for the new medium. SMS language also shares some of these characteristics with Internet slang and Telex speak, as it evolved alongside

5292-402: The summer of 1960 with limited service to London and Paris. In 1962, the major exchanges were located in New York City (1), Chicago (2), San Francisco (3), Kansas City (4) and Atlanta (5). The telex network expanded by adding the final parent exchange cities of Los Angeles (6), Dallas (7), Philadelphia (8) and Boston (9), starting in 1966. The telex numbering plan, usually a six-digit number in

5376-508: The telephone system, with their own signalling standards, exchanges and system of telex numbers (the counterpart of telephone numbers). Telex provided the first common medium for international record communications using standard signalling techniques and operating criteria as specified by the International Telecommunication Union . Customers on any telex exchange could deliver messages to any other, around

5460-630: The telex network to what was effectively a directory service running on the telephone network. Telex began in Germany as a research and development program in 1926 that became an operational teleprinter service in 1933. The service, operated by the German Reichspost had a speed of 50 baud , which is approximately 66 words per minute. Soon after telex services were developed by other nations. Telex spread within Europe and after 1945 around

5544-459: The textual equivalent of verbal prosodic features such as facial expression and tone of voice. Indeed, even though SMS language exists in the format of written text, it closely resembles normal speech in that it does not have a complicated structure and that its meaning is greatly contextualised. In the case of capitalization in SMS language, there are three scenarios: Most SMS messages have done away with capitalization. Use of capitalizations on

5628-453: The traffic increased, it was decided to have a separate network for telex traffic, and the first manual exchange opened in London. By 1954, the public inland telex service opened via manually switched exchanges. A number of subscribers were served via automatic sub-centres which used relays and Type 2 uniselectors , acting as concentrators for a manual exchange. In the late 1950s, the decision

5712-528: The traffic, causing considerable delay in the speed of connections of up to 2 1 ⁄ 2 minutes on average. On August 31, 1962, the service was integrated into the Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) network, which improved connection times to about thirty seconds. For the new dial technology, each station was assigned a ten-digit telephone number from a reserved set of N10 area codes, designated as Service Access Codes (SAC). Area code 510

5796-511: The use of non-English languages and scripts in SMS. This motivates the anglicization of such languages, especially those using non- Latin orthographies (i.e. not using Latin alphabets) following for instance, the even more limited message lengths involved when using for example, Cyrillic or Greek letters. On the other side, researcher Gillian Perrett observes the de-anglicization of the English language following its use and incorporation into non-English linguistic contexts. As such, on top of

5880-467: The use of shorthand in Internet chat rooms . Likewise, such a change sought to accommodate the small number of characters allowed per message, and to increase convenience for the time-consuming and often small keyboards on mobile phones. Similar elliptical styles of writing can be traced to the days of telegraphese 120 years back, when telegraph operators were reported to use abbreviations similar to modern text when chatting amongst themselves in between

5964-591: The use of the special US area codes continued until 1981, when Western Union completed the conversion to the Western Union Telex II system. Canada moved its TWX-numbers, as well as Datalink services, to the non-geographic area code 600 , effective October 1, 1993, in exchange for returning 610. The network originally transmitted at a speed of 45.45 baud, or approximately 60 words per minute, using five-bit Baudot code , often referred to as 3-row coding with 32 characters arranged in three key rows of

6048-585: The use of: There are many examples of words or phrases that share the same abbreviations (e.g., lol could mean laugh out loud , lots of love , or little old lady , and cryn could mean crayon or cryin(g) ). For words that have no common abbreviation, users most commonly remove the vowels from a word, and the reader is required to interpret a string of consonants by re-adding the vowels (e.g., dictionary becomes dctnry and keyboard becomes kybrd ). Omission of words, especially function words (e.g., determiners like "a" and "the") are also employed as part of

6132-439: The word appears to decide what the word should be. For many other words like "Im" and "Shes", there is no ambiguity. Since users don't need to use apostrophes to ensure that their message is understood accurately, this phenomenon may in part be attributed to texters wanting to maintain clarity so that the message can be more easily understood in a shorter amount of time. The widespread mobile phone auto-correct feature contributes to

6216-552: The world. By 1978 West Germany , including West Berlin , had 123,298 telex connections. Long before automatic telephony became available, most countries, even in central Africa and Asia , had at least a few high-frequency shortwave telex links. Often, government postal and telegraph services (PTTs) initiated these radio links. The most common radio standard, CCITT R.44 had error-corrected retransmitting time-division multiplexing of radio channels. Most impoverished PTTs operated their telex-on-radio (TOR) channels non-stop, to get

6300-515: The world. To reduce connecting line usage, telex messages were encoded onto paper tape and then read into the line as quickly as possible. The system normally delivered information at 50 baud or approximately 66 words per minute, encoded using the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 . In the last days of the traditional telex networks, end-user equipment was often replaced by modems and phone lines , reducing

6384-700: The written work by the students. Of all the errors found, quite a substantial amount cannot be attributed to use of SMS language. These included errors that have already appeared even before the advent of SMS language. There are also views that SMS language has little or no effect on grammar. Proponents of this view feel that SMS language is merely another language, and since learning a new language does not affect students' proficiency in English grammar, it cannot be said that SMS language can affect their grammar. With proper instruction, students should be able to distinguish between slang, SMS language and standard English and use them in their appropriate contexts. According to

6468-510: Was assigned for the United States and Area Code 610 in Canada. Sixteen operating centers were established across the United States. Later in the decade, the United States was subdivided into three service regions. and assigned codes from the remaining set of SACs (710, 810, and 910). SAC 710 covered the Northeast of the United States (New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,

6552-510: Was incorporated into Cable & Wireless Communications , which continued telex operation until 2006 when the remaining telex subscribers were transferred to Swiss Telex, which operated a multinational telex network until 2020 (also with T200 equipment). British Telecom stopped offering the telex service to new customers in 2004 and discontinued the service in 2008, allowing users to transfer to Swiss Telex if they wished to continue to use telex. Canada-wide automatic teleprinter exchange service

6636-878: Was introduced by the CPR Telegraph Company and CN Telegraph in July 1957 (the two companies, operated by rivals Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway , would join to form CNCP Telecommunications in 1967). This service supplemented the existing international telex service that was put in place in November 1956. Canadian telex customers could connect with nineteen European countries in addition to eighteen Latin American, African, and trans-Pacific countries. The major exchanges were located in Montreal (01), Toronto (02), and Winnipeg (03). Telex

6720-502: Was made to convert to automatic switching and this was completed by 1961; there were 21 exchanges spread across the country, with one international exchange in London. The equipment used the Strowger system for switching, as was the case for the telephone network. Conversion to Stored Programme Control (SPC) began in 1984 using exchanges made by Canadian Marconi , with the last Strowger exchange closing in 1992. User numbers increased over

6804-406: Was no specific policy about text language." A study performed by Cingel & Sundar (2012) investigated the relationship between the use of SMS language and grammar in adolescents. By using a self-report survey where the 228 middle school participants would answer questions regarding their texting behaviors, as well as a ten minute in-class grammar assessment, the study gathered information on how

6888-459: Was offered in two different configurations for Western Union Telex in the United States. The first option, sometimes called local or loop service , provided a 60 milliampere loop circuit from the exchange to the customer teleprinter. The second option, sometimes called long distance or polar was used when a 60 milliampere connection could not be achieved, provided a ground return polar circuit using 35 milliamperes on separate send and receive wires. By

6972-400: Was re-acquired by AT&T in 1990 in the purchase of the Western Union assets that became AT&T EasyLink Services . In 1958, Western Union started to build a telex network in the United States. This telex network started as a satellite exchange located in New York City and expanded to a nationwide network. Western Union chose Siemens & Halske AG, now Siemens AG, and ITT to supply

7056-518: Was the Bell 101 dataset, developed by 1958 for military applications. It is the direct ancestor of the Bell 103 modem that launched computer time-sharing . The 101 was revolutionary because it allowed the Bell System to run TWX on its regular voice telephone lines. The code and speed conversion between 3-row Baudot and 4-row ASCII TWX service was accomplished using a special Bell 10A/B board via

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