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However, in the midst of the media frenzy, linguistic and learning theorists have become interested in an offshoot of this text messaging 'craze' - a written vocabulary that has emerged in its wake . . . 'textese'. Textese is an abbreviated vocabulary that includes initialisms (e.g.lolfor laughing out loud), letter/number homophones (e.g. gr8 for great), contractions or shortenings (e.g. cuzfor because), emoticons (symbols representing emotions (e.g.: (for sad), and the deletion of unnecessary words, vowels, punctuation, and capitalization (Thurlow 2003; Carrington 2004;