26th February 2019

Text Conversation Transcript

  1. Idek aha I’ll just c if i can stay at someone’s or something

2. yes Yes yEs yeS

2. U r CoMiNg To My PaRtY tOmOrRoW

  1. what there’s no consent I dOnT wAnT tHe TeA

2. WHAT

2. NO

  1. YES

2. FUCK THIS IM ASKING YOUR MOMMA

  1. NO NO NO NO [the teacher] wouldn’t be happy with this arrangement she likes her tea consent video too mUcH tHeRe Is No CoNsEnT

2. no it’s okay U R STILL COMING TO WATCH ME BC U R AN 80 year old pervert

  1. Ahh I AM
  2. Yes ??????????
  1. FINE YOU THOT
  2. YESSSSSSSS THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU MORE THAT ABYTGING

BOLD – use of capitalisation to show tone

Italics – acronym

Red – Contraction

Blue – Logograms

Green – punctuation added for effect

Orange – random capitalisation – it looks cool

Yellow – speech-like interjections

Pink – Initialism

Hypothesis : People’s text communication is less formal than their spoken communication.

“U” is a homophone and is used for brevity

A homophone is when something sounds the same eg. saw, sore & soar

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