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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:37:05 -0800 To: air-l@aoir.org From: Mark Warschauer <markw@uci.edu> Subject: Re: [Air-l] SMS? Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Where do you live, Mark ?
Southern California.
SMS is not as prevalent here as in Europe, and apparently neither is the term (though I'm sure people more astute than I are familiar with it). Mark
Mark Warschauer Vice Chair, Department of Education Assistant Professor of Education and of Information & Computer Science University of California, Irvine
Since I mentally mistranslated "SMS" as "Synchronous Message Systems" (i.e., generic chat) for a moment (and I'm interested in in-group restricted language codes), I Googled "SMS " to see how out-of-it I was. Google found 48,300,000 hits, so I, too, must sadly confess to being acronym-impaired. Now if you had said "...thumb typing" ... ======================================================== James H. Watt Professor and Chair, Department of Language, Literature, and Communication Director, Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, Sage Lab 4708 Troy, NY 12180-3590 email: wattj@rpi.edu voice: (518) 276-2784 fax: (518) 276-4092