Audience: Most people who own a mobile device / phone.
Purpose: to show people how slang is being used by most people. A text message is to help people communicate when they don't have time for a long conversation or don't have enough privacy to make a phone call.
Format: A text Message from a mobile phone
Interesting Language Features: By the writer / "texter" using slang to shorten their words, it shows that the human language could either be seen as evolving, making it easier for people to communicate without needing to spend a long time typing all of the necessary keys, or it could be seen as de-evolving as people are using 'gr8' instead of just putting 2 extra letters and putting 'great' and so some may argue that the younger generation (who started this style of writing) may be changing in a bad way.
How technology as influenced this Text: By mobile phones being able to shorten words (type words in a way that is still understandable but just look different) it shows that technology has given us the power to change our natural speech into something new and more interesting for younger generations.
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