| Nowadays, the art of making small talk verbally have been reduced to text with the widespread use of Short Message Service (SMS). Not only the art of speaking is lost on us, SMS messages usually contain copious amount of shortened words, such as “ltr” or “l8r” (Later) and “tmr” (Tomorrow) due to people wanting to send a SMS quickly causing deterioration even in literary abilities.
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