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Date Added: May 16, 2008 02:32:04 PM
Far from undermining our ability to communicate, teenage text message shorthand represents a "linguistic renaissance", say researchers. E-mail and mobile phones have bred a whole lexicon of abbreviations, truncated words and acronyms that can be used to swap instant messages.

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