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Counting Characters in Twitter
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 10.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | texting, Twitter
Summary | Why does Twitter only allow a limit of 140 characters? When Twitter was created, they decided to develop a system that would mirror the SMS system with its 160-character limit. They tried to do that, but they also needed space for the sender's username and the colon that precedes the tweet. Maybe Twitter will increase the limit in the future.
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Suivre Le Petit Robert sur Twitter, c'est trop lol mdr
(Follow Le Petit Robert on Twitter, it's lol mdr)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | spelling, texting, Twitter
Summary | When people first starting texting, they would use abbreviations such as "lol", "mdr", or "tkt". In order to promote French language and eradicate "text message language", Le Robert Dictionary uses its Twitter account to share jokes related to text message features.
Image Description | Photograph of an open dictionary and screenshots of Tweets.
Image Tags | dictionary, Twitter
Leserbriefe
(Letters to the editor)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 18.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, research/study, school, texting, Twitter, word/writing
Summary | The Pisa study results show that the Swiss language education concept has failed. The reading skills of Swiss students are very poor. More time is being dedicated to foreign languages than to the native language - are children now supposed to learn German from Tweets and text messages in Swiss German?
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D'où vient l'acronyme Osef ?
(Where does the acronym Osef come from?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | hashtags, texting, Twitter, word/writing, youth
Summary | The term "osef" seems to be very popular among teenagers nowadays. It means "on s'en fout" (we don't care). The expression was born on Twitter and was preceded by a hashtag or mot-dièse (the English term won).
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