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SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen. Short Message Service ( SMS) 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. [ 1]
Gloss (annotation) A gloss is a notation regarding the main text in a document. Shown is a parchment page from the Royal Library of Copenhagen. A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is different.
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
BLUF ( bottom line up front) [ 1] is the practice of beginning a message with its key information (the "bottom line"). This provides the reader with the most important information first. [ 2] By extension, that information is also called a BLUF. It differs from an abstract or executive summary in that it is simpler and more concise, similar to ...
A parallel text is a text placed alongside its translation or translations. [ 1][ 2] Parallel text alignment is the identification of the corresponding sentences in both halves of the parallel text. The Loeb Classical Library and the Clay Sanskrit Library are two examples of dual-language series of texts.
Nota bene ( / ˈnoʊtə ˈbɛneɪ /, / ˈnoʊtə ˈbɛni / or / ˈnoʊtə ˈbiːni /; plural: notate bene) is the Latin phrase meaning note well. [ 1] In manuscripts, nota bene is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B., and in lower-case as n.b. and nb; the editorial usages of nota bene and notate bene first appeared in the English style of ...
Cohesion (linguistics) Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence . There are two main types of cohesion: lexical cohesion: based on lexical content and background knowledge. A cohesive text is created in many ...
Meaning–text theory. Meaning–text theory ( MTT) is a theoretical linguistic framework, first put forward in Moscow by Aleksandr Žolkovskij and Igor Mel’čuk, [1] for the construction of models of natural language. The theory provides a large and elaborate basis for linguistic description and, due to its formal character, lends itself ...