Research Journal Entry 11 New Ways of Communication

Nowadays, young people may communicate with each other through some new ways such as email, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and SMS. We may find that this kind of “informal” communicative way is getting more popular than the standard way. For example, we may use some acronym of phrases or sentences such as G.N. to represent “good night”, use the compression of word such as Ths to stand for “thanks”, or use homophony in number or in letter such as 881 to represent “bye bye” or cu and ic to stand for “see you” and “I see”. It’s very interesting to feel the transformation of a language, because it always reminds me that I’m living in the process of historical linguistics.