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Hello, today said that our BBC UK network a topic these days. Like to send SMS in a family of the "thumb" attention: excessive use "SMS language" may allow you to find work. In today's economic recession, it is not a small problem. (SMS language is too simple for specification, affect the employment of children in the future. ) United Kingdom Government child language development consultancy Jane · Gros (JeanGross) said that many teenagers like to send SMS, Internet chat, has its own set of "words", but usually every day they only use the 800 words, and if this situation continues, of course, difficult to find work. Gros said: "the young people who spend a lot of time through electronic media communication, language short, we need to help today's young people understand the SMS language and help them towards the success of the distinction between formal language. "United Kingdom linguists say, usually 16-year-old young people can acquire 40 000 words, but many people in their daily interactions are only using fewer words. Language education expert John · Boulder (JohnBald) said: "there is no doubt that young people are trying to avoid complex communication language. Children in social instinct is simplistic when they do is part of the school culture, and the school and parents concerned. "United Kingdom Lancaster University Linguistics Professor Tony · Macon Le (TonyMcEnery) has written to teens blog study, a collection of 100 000 words, find the most commonly used 20 words as" yeah "and" no "and" but ", the total of 1/3. Other commonly used words nor specifications, including "chenzed" (tired or drunk), "spong" (stupid) and "lol" (Internet slang, meaning for laughing out loud). To resolve this problem, Gros plan next year's education for secondary school students to enable them to understand adults communication language at work, and then on video and uploaded to the Youtube website for others to learn. Gross also proposed to limit the children watch TV time, about half an hour every day, so as to avoid their talk time to communicate. You on this? meeting posted comments.

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