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Say what? With the cellphone industry picking up steam in developing countries, new languages are emerging.

A Yahoo News article focuses on the lingo that is being created in Africa.

"MTN, Africa’s biggest cell phone operator, has published a dictionary of SMS lingo and is launching a campaign to teach poorer South Africans how to text message."

In related news, texting seems to be improving students’ grammar skills!

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Posted: August 4th, 2006
at 5:45am by Black Ock


Categories: life,cell phones,business,language

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