跟朋友發(fā)短信或者在網(wǎng)上聊天的時(shí)候,總是會(huì)看到lol,ttul等讓人摸不著頭腦的一些縮略語(yǔ),想直接問(wèn)人家吧,又怕被人家笑話。到網(wǎng)上一搜才發(fā)現(xiàn),原來(lái)這些都屬于textese(短信文),(lol是laugh out loud,ttul指talk to you later),是人們?yōu)榱税l(fā)短信方便創(chuàng)造出來(lái)的,
Textese (also known as txtese, chatspeak, textspeak, texting language, or txt talk) is a term for the abbreviations and slang most commonly used due to the necessary brevity of mobile phone text messaging, though its use is common on the Internet, including e-mail and instant messaging. It can be likened to a rebus, which uses pictures and single letters, or numbers to represent whole words (e.g, "i <3 u" means “I love you”, b4 means before, lol means laugh out loud, etc. ).
短信文(英文為textese,也可以用txtese, chatspeak, textspeak, texting language, 或 txt talk來(lái)表示)指為了保證手機(jī)短信的簡(jiǎn)短而使用的縮寫(xiě)和俗語(yǔ)表達(dá),現(xiàn)在也通用于電子郵件和即時(shí)信息等網(wǎng)絡(luò)交流工具中。這種短信文是由圖片、字母或數(shù)字的組合來(lái)代表某個(gè)單詞的,感覺(jué)像字謎一樣。比如:"i <3 u"就代表“我愛(ài)你”(中間的<3像是一顆心的形狀,代表“愛(ài)”),b4就是before(以前)這個(gè)單詞的縮寫(xiě)形式,而lol則是laugh out loud(大聲笑出來(lái))這三個(gè)單詞的縮寫(xiě)。
The objective of textese is to use the fewest number of characters needed to convey a comprehensible message, another benefit of textese is to reduce the character count of a message, hence, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization are largely ignored.
短信文出現(xiàn)的目的是用最少的字母來(lái)傳遞意思完整的信息,另外,因?yàn)槎绦盼目梢詼p少信息中使用的字符數(shù),所以標(biāo)點(diǎn)符號(hào)、語(yǔ)法以及大小寫(xiě)等規(guī)則在短信文中也都被忽略了。
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