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Students who read YA are more likely to appreciate literature and have stronger reading skills than others. [104] YA also allows teachers to talk about "taboo" or difficult topics with their students. For example, a 2014 study shows that using Laurie Halse Anderson's novel Speak aided in discussions on
SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen. Short Message Service language, textism, or textese [a] is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.
Commonly assumed to stand for “save our ship”, but technically, the international distress signal doesn’t stand for anything. TASER. Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle. VIN. Vehicle identification ...
The file starts with a header containing a magic number (as a readable string) and the version of the format, for example %PDF-1.7. The format is a subset of a COS ("Carousel" Object Structure) format. [23] A COS tree file consists primarily of objects, of which there are nine types: [16] Boolean values, representing true or false; Real numbers ...
The results showed that 87% of students found texting to be "very" or "extremely" distracting. [95] A study by AAA found that 46% of teens admitted to being distracted behind the wheel due to texting. One example of distraction behind the wheel is the 2008 Chatsworth train collision, which killed 25 passengers. The engineer had sent 45 text ...
To find the texting abbreviations that confuse Floridians most, Vera found 114 of the most-commonly-used text abbreviations and “Identified the top most googled text abbreviations for their ...
COMMENT: Whether you prefer one-word replies or sending long, rambling messages, Olivia Petter explains why the way you text could be the key to understanding your next relationship
An abbreviation is a shortening of a word, for example "CU" or "CYA" for "see you (see ya)". An acronym, on the other hand, is a subset of abbreviations and are formed from the initial components of each word. Examples of common acronyms include "LOL" for "laugh out loud", "BTW" for "by the way" and "TFW" for "that feeling when".