“Gr8, TTYL.” What did that person just say?! This person was basically saying “Great, Talk to you later.” This is considered an abbreviation, an abbreviation means a smaller version of a word or phrase. For instance, the word average is abbreviated avg. There are many different types of abbreviations, which include: Here is a list of abbreviation types: Acronym, initialism, etc. An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the first letter or letters of a series of words, like AIDS, NAACP. When people are not familiar with abbreviations with in a sentence or phrase it can create chaos. Text messaging abbreviations can be inappropriate for school, work and formal writing assignments. A user needs to know the difference in how to use formal vs. …show more content…
Using abbreviations helps users to save time too. When a person is really busy or in hurry, instead of using full sentences, they would probably short abbreviations because they are very comfortable and useful. Abbreviation is messing up our cognition or "process of thought". Without actual seeing the full word spelled out or knowing the meaning of the abbreviated, a user may not be sure what the other person actually means (Dibapile). This indistinctness activates the imagination, stirs up fantasies, and enhances the tendency to project a person’s expectations, wishes, and anxieties of a connection between people. “Too much abbreviating has become what some doctors are calling an addiction” (Dixon Jr). Communication reactions more readily surface when emotional attachments begin to form, but they still do not have a good sense for the person due to that lack of face-to-face. Under certain conditions, as more time is spent conversing with a person through text, phone users begin to understand another person as they really are. However, from a psychological standpoint, some aspects of our mental image of the other person rest more on our own expectations and needs than on the reality of that person. Expectations include the way users think they looks, their voice, or some element of their personality. Phone users may not even be consciously aware that they have formed an impression of that other person until they meet the person face-to-face or talk to them on the phone only to discover that they are in some way very different from what they
In the article, “Does Im Make U dum”, the author states how instant messaging has made us become “dum”. The issue of using popular texting abbreviations like, “lol”, “brb”, or “gtg” can either be an effective or unproductive way of expression. Using abbreviations through texting are so commonly used by children, teenagers, and adults. Statistics show that children are younger than ever for when they are first exposed to mobile phones and text messaging. A 2005 ChildWise study that one-in-four children under the age of eight had a mobile phone.
The average profile of an individual is the superior polished version of themselves. “ Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick thumbed quip peddler over the confident ice breaking alpha male. or maybe we are hiding behind a cloak of digital text and spell check to present ourselves while using these less intimate forms of communication to accelerate the courting process. so whats it really good for?” Often when first meeting someone we tend to be more reserved at first, we will read a text repeatedly 10 times to be sure thats the perfect response.
Despite of errors that can be potentially generated by using abbreviations , the use of such shortened form of inscribing some words and medical orders has been a part of the practice and has not been eradicated. It would be therefore for the best and benefit of everyone to be well guided by written policies on usage of abbreviations. Standard policies on abbreviation usage have been developed by organizations such as The Joint Commission (ISMP, 2007). The JCAHO has been also striving to reach out to the healthcare professionals and organizations to help in elimination of errors rooting from the use of abbreviations (AARC, 2005). Org...
Written policies should be developed in the healthcare field when dealing with abbreviations. These policies should include information on how to correctly write out the abbreviation and also show how important spelling is when writing out the words. It should also include which abbreviations are okay to use and which ones should be avoided. If the problem still continues with abbreviation errors, maybe a class needs to be taken so workers get the basics on why abbreviations do cause errors and how we as workers can avoid these errors. When it comes to using abbreviations they should be used with care and understanding.
People in general tend to be disinhibited in text communication because they cannot see each other, they can send a message then ‘run away,’ and they might start to experience the message as an extension of their own intra-psychic space, where they feel free to think anything…. (p.
“Our generation doesn't ring the doorbell. They text or call to say they're outside,” this line is from one of the well-known social networks, Tweeter, which shows how the way of communication has change in this modern life. According to 2013 statistics by Business Insider, in United States alone, smartphone owners aged 18 to 24 send 2,022 texts per month on average — 67 texts on a daily basis — and receive another 1,831 texts (Cocotas). Nowadays, technology such as text messaging has practically replaced traditional face to face communication among the society primarily in young generations because texting allows messages to be sent fast and effortless. In order to quickly type what they are trying to say in text messaging, people are frequently using textspeak; the language created by using abbreviation rather than complete words. Based on this phenomenon, David Crystal, an honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales has published an article entitled ‘2b or not 2b?’ in the Guardian on July 5, 2008 comes out with the research and studies that state texting can actually improve the literacy of children and create creativity of writing. However, by observing more critically, texting do decrease a person’s ability to switch between textspeak and the normal rules of grammar and adversely affect formal writing and conversational skills.
One of the challenges is a high rate of new abbreviations which introduce, develop and occur in biomedical texts. In this article, we have suggested a combinatorial alignment algorithm to detect abbreviations from biomedical texts. The method is to identify short form and long form pairs where short form of any kind
Social relationships are essential for one to function properly within today’s society. Cell phones have affected social relationships by changing them from social conduct to contacting someone through a text message. “ Research in human interaction using communication technology like text messages and phone calls could deepen an understanding on how society manages their everyday life” (Rippen). Cell phones have become such a necessity in everyday life that cell phone users rely on a device to manage their everyday social relationships. Cell phone users can manage their social relationships with the touch of a screen. The user can access facebook, send a tweet, send an email, text, or call anyone anywhere in the world. As of lately cell phone users seem to be driven by their own need to be connected to anyone with in seconds. Some people find it overwhelming when it comes to manage their social relationships and have issues when confronted with human contact.
Old fashioned phone conversations are more sincere. They allow people to talk on a personal level, even though they may not be physically next to each other. Phone conversations allow people to have a closer look to your inner personality and a sense of understanding is developed. Yet, if phone calls grow sincere conversations, then why do people prefer texting instead of phone calls? "The more ri...
For example, a Twitter user might tweet something about how their favorite sports team just lost a game and add "smh" at the end of the tweet to further express their disappointment:
The use inventive spelling, abbreviations. As high school students start to use short texting, some of their grades dropped due to the spelling errors they make. So many teens get used to wing abbreviating that they just begin to write that that way. Some teenagers writing skills have turned into sentence fragments, because of the limited space they put into text sentence. In my research how does texting affect teen literacy the percentage was 64 percent of students who say they incorporated text language in their writing, 25 percent said they did so to convey have used text shortcuts a lot of students, vocabulary and grammar is also affecting their literacy. The outlook of the teachers is that. Text plus recently released results of its own survey of 1,214 teens that use their services. 43 percent of which have texted in class, they seem to pay more attention to their phone than what the teacher is teaching. They seem to have the phones that will spell the word for them so they have to worry about spelling. In the age of text message, where words are reduce to no stand abbreviating, symbols, But in my research I pointed out that technology has put new emphasis on reading and
An aspect of technology that is not often discussed is the effect it has on personal communication. When presented with a situation in which one wants to tell their significant other “I love you” many would opt say this via text message rather than in person. Technology also provides us with the ability to solve the uncertainty associated with a situation. But, rather than meeting people in person to solve uncertainty, one can choose to browse the person...
Lenny Laskowski (1998,1), president of LJL Seminars, notes that people always form an initial impression the first time they come in contact with someone, regardless of whether it is in person or whether it is over the telephone. Every other contact after that first time either supports or conflicts with that first impression. If a good first impression is created, the relationship grows from there, but if a bad first impression is created, “the relationship with that person can be an uphill battle.”
Przybylski, A. K. & Weinstein N. (2012). Can you connect with me now? How the presence of mobile communication technology influences face-to-face conversation quality. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30(3), 238-246. doi: 10.1177/0265407512453827.
This paper describes the word-formation process in Arabic which is abbreviation that contains three important processes; acronyms, clipping and blending. Although these processes do not exist widely in Arabic, they are important to be known and to be discussed. So, this research aims to illustrate the definition of each process and to give explanations and examples on each. Merriam Webster dictionary defines the term of abbreviation as “a shortened form of written word or phrase used in place of the whole word of phrase”. Abbreviation contains three parts which are acronyms (الأوائلية اللفظة), clipping (الإجتزاء) and blending