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SMS-Kürzel im 19. Jahrhundert

"... 130 years before the arrival of mobile phone texting, Charles C Bombaugh uses phrases such as “I wrote 2 U B 4”. Another verse reads: “He says he loves U 2 X S,/ U R virtuous and Y's,/ In X L N C U X L/ All others in his i's."

Sowohl Anatol Stefanowitschs Artikel, als auch die Ausstellung Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices in der British Library tönen interessant.