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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee
I think that as long as young people do heavy chatting on keitai, they will keep coming up with new abbreviations. It's just physically much faster to type 「あのＫＯマジＫＹ」 than to type 「あのクサイおやじ、マジで空気が読めない」. They should ban keitai in Japan or our language will be destroyed!
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I remember during the "poke-bell" boom of the mid-90s, young people could "read numbers" into messages. Once keitais came around, that skill lost any need to exist, so I am sure the next generation will have something else...but I do agree with you.