One day morning I got a message on my cell, it writes: "Thnx 4 ur hlp". Well it's sure that you can't find the word of the written sentence in any of the lexicon, but if u ask anyone they will not only tell you the meaning, but it may be possible that they will reply also in the same manner with few more shocking shrinking words.
I am very much in support for the use of these words afterall the main purpose of any sentence is to commnicate the meaning. As long as the other end person understands, its ok.
Then I started thinking that from where this culture has started. Actually the culture of shrinking the english was also there in the past. You can see it in the form of abbreviations everywhere. But now a days for the past two years it has picked up it's pace like anything. People now a days uses alphanumeric words to communicate in short. Just think about the creativity of people who initiated such things.
Take the first sentence again but this time formal " thanks for your help". Total words=17, where as with the shrinking words the same purpose is achieved by 10 words. That is saving of 7 words.
We can simply write "gr8" for "great", saving two words. Now think how can you shrink " your question is wrong". I will write it as "ur ? is X".
One reason could be the growing telecom industry where people have so much of interest in messaging within restricted number of words.
If this culture will be adopted formally everywhere then I think it can save lots of time and money also by utilising less number of pages, inks etc. Just imagine the documentation work in India and then think of the saving...
But this shrinking should not be so fast or too much that in future we should be left with only blank papers....!!!
