8________ about text messaging is that it _________
9 _________
unconstrained language. But the study found this to be a myth," says Lee. "The
people who accepted more words did so because they were better able to
__________
10 _______ the meaning of the word, or tolerate the word, even if they
didn't recognise the word. Students who reported texting more rejected more words
instead of acknowledging them as possible words."
Lee suggests that reading traditional print media exposes people to
_______
11 ______ and creativity in language that is not found in the colloquial
peer-to-peer text messaging used among youth or 'generation text'. She says
reading encourages flexibility in language use and tolerance of different words. It
helps readers to develop ___________
12 ________ that allow them to generate
interpretable readings of new or unusual words.
"In contrast, texting is associated with rigid linguistic constraints which caused
students to reject many of the words in the study," says Lee. "This was surprising
because there are many unusual __________
13_________ or "textisms" such as
"LOL" in text messaging language."
Lee says that for texters, word frequency is an important factor in the acceptability
of words.
"Textisms represent real words which are commonly known among people who
text," she says. "Many of the words presented in the study are not commonly
known and were not acceptable to the __________
14________ in the study who
texted more or read less traditional print media."
Exercise 10
