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abbreviations, often involving rebuses (as in text-messaging), such as sat for Saturday, C U “see you”, l8 “late”
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emotive punctuation sequences, such as yes!!!!!!!, Jim??!!??
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spellings, such as outta “out of”, wanna “want to”, cee ya “see you”, seemz “seems”
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grammatical constructions, such as omitting a verb (he lovely), or breaking a concord rule (me am feeling better)
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eye-dialect forms, such as it wuz lotsa lafs, i got enuf
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nonce formations, such as running words together (igottanewcar) or abnormal hyphenation (what-a-helluva-mess)
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misspellings or lexical substitutions which achieve a fashionable privileged status in a particular group, such as the deliberate spelling of computer as comptuer (originating in an individual error which caught the group's fancy)


