And don’t forget the smiley face :)

LOL, OMG, BTW, BFF and my personal favorite WTF are all examples of new lingo entering the English language due to texting. Texters in all languages have their own text shortcuts based on letters, numbers and characters that make sense in their language. In Japanese saying the number 3 followed by the number 9 sounds very similar to the English words ‘Thank You’ so Japanese texters use 39 to say ‘Thank You’ in their texts…interesting that they use a text for an English Phrase which also shows the international usage of English.

(The Great Courses – Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage)

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