Background Information

Now a day, many students like using MSN and SMS to chat. However, do you really know what is MSN and SMS? Why are they so attracted by using the informal language? First, let us know more about both of them:

Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN Messenger, and often colloquially referred to as simply MSN) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft that is currently designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Mobile. The client has been part of Microsoft's Windows Live set of online services since 2005. It connects to Microsoft's .NET Messenger Service. The client was first released as MSN Messenger on July 22, 1999,[1] and as Windows Live Messenger on December 13, 2005.[2]

 Short Message Service (SMS) is a communications protocol allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile telephone devices. SMS text messaging is the most widely used data application on the planet, with 2.4 billion active users, or 74% of all mobile phone subscribers sending and receiving text messages on their phones.

 From the information above, we learn that students use these tools to community with each other since it is more convenient. However, they use some informal language like ‘why’ becomes ‘y’, ‘please’ becomes ‘plz’, ‘thanks’ becomes ‘thx’ ,etc. We believe that many of the students use this language as it is a faster and easier way to communicate. Unfortunately, they don’t really understand that if they continue to use this language, it can make a bad habit and influence their daily life. Therefore, we are going to introduce more about it.    

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