Arbies -Leaving in 20 mins
Shaf-Ok kl
Shaf-Jus left
Kai-Kl
Jad-I’m leaving in a bit
Shaf-I’m nearly there
Kai-Here’s some chicken for your troubles?
Jad-Yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayayaya Toure
Kai-Nananananana amanamamanamananaNanananananananananan Giroud
Shaf-????
Kai-Mad ting?
Yll- Shut up
Kai- Shut up you durkhead ?
Kl – Kl is an abbreviation for cool. “Ok kl” It’s much quicker and also very understandable. It’s a homophone because it sounds the same as cool, but it’s quicker to write kl. The K is phonetic so that it has the the right sound.
There are some emojis in this conversation. Emojis are very good to use in a texting conversation because it’s quick and it sort of expresses what you are saying. For example if you text something, when someone reads it they could interpret it in many different ways, but if you add an emoji like a face it shows how it is being said.
September 28, 2015 at 11:21 pm
This will be ideal. Thank you!
September 30, 2015 at 9:34 pm
This use of emojis is an equivalent to the paralinguistic features we discussed in relation to spoken language. As you explain, they represent what might otherwise be communicated on someone’s face as they speak, and in this sense make texting more like speaking than traditional writing.
This raises some questions: Why do you think this has happened? What effects would be used in more formal writing to communicate these same nuances to the language? Are emojis as nuanced as facial expressions?