[Air-l] Re: SMS

[James Watt]

RE:

>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 08:37:05 -0800
>To: air-l at aoir.org
>From: Mark Warschauer <markw at uci.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] SMS?
>Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
>
> >Where do you live, Mark ?
> >
>Southern California.
>
>SMS is not as prevalent here as in Europe, and apparently neither is
>the term (though I'm sure people more astute than I are familiar with
>it).
>Mark
>
>Mark Warschauer
>Vice Chair, Department of Education
>Assistant Professor of Education and of Information & Computer Science
>University of California, Irvine

Since I mentally mistranslated "SMS" as "Synchronous Message Systems" 
(i.e., generic chat) for a moment (and I'm interested in in-group 
restricted language codes), I Googled "SMS " to see how out-of-it I was. 
Google found 48,300,000 hits, so I, too, must sadly confess to being 
acronym-impaired. Now if you had said "...thumb typing" ...







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