Nowadays, the invention of technology especially
mobile phone leads society beyond transformation of technology and its devices.
The transformation can be seen clearly in whole communication aspects. By using
mobile phone, people are able to communicate and utilize their language
limitless. The features which is found in mobile phone such as voice call,
video call, Media Message Service (MMS), and Short Message Service (SMS). These
features can make people are able to communicate anytime and anywhere. A SMS
service, one of mobile phone’s features, is limited by the number of
characters. By this reason, this paper is going to bring a clear description
about several styles of SMS. This limits forces many people to
be creative in arranging their ideas in the form of sentences in SMS. They,
then clip the sentences, mix letters with numbers, put symbols and so forth in
order to overcome character’s limit problem. This kind of creativity leads them
to invent a new language style known as SMS language. Unfortunately, since
there is no convention about how to write SMS, every people tends to invent
their own style in writing SMS. As a result, various styles of writing SMS are
found. This phenomenon becomes interesting to be learnt based on linguistic
approached.
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