Features of text message of Sutiyem

Cell phones plays a dominant role in human's life nowadays. People from worldwide countries are increasingly relied on text messaging to convey their idea and data to others. A recent survey conducted by the Population Reference Bureau website reveals that in Indonesia, the world's fourth largest country, more than 240 millions people are counted as text-messaging users.

Regard to our consultant Sutiyem, she agreed that she is a frequent user of text-messaging. "I usually use text messaging to date my friends. "The message that she sent are all in English letter as it is the only typing language which is available in cell phones while she is proficient in.

Let us analyze some of the features that we found in Sutiyem 's text-messagings.

1) vocalization

sucei --> Cantonese (小姐 siu ze) 

                 meaning: Ms.

Sutiyem used the word sucei to intimate the pronunciation of Ms. in Cantonese.

2) unambigious abbreviation

u --> you

        meaning: you  

pls --> please

           meaning: please

Sutiyem replaced "you" with "u", "please" with "pls" to make the word length much shorter and so save the typing time.

3) minimal use of capitalisation

i --> I

thank--->thanks 

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4) spell phonetically

laswek --> last week

tichers --> teachers

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5) lexical shortening

se --> see

tomorow --> tomorrow

6) vowel missing

gd --> good

7) copula omission

se how tomorow -->see how is tomorrow

Do your text-messages share some of the features of Sutiyem's? Leave a comment to share with us !! ;)

reference:

http://pewsocialtrends.org/2010/08/03/text-messaging-plays-big-role-in-indonesian-census/