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Dilyan
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Dilyan asked in Education & ReferenceWords & Wordplay · 1 decade ago

in linguistic terms how would you describe the shortening of i love you too much into 'i luv u 2 much'

What type of abbreviation it is:

a) apocope

b) clipping

c) elision

d) syncope

e) syllabic abbreviation

f) portmanteau.

Please explain

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  • Lance
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    None of the above, sorry.

    The shortening of words and phrases of such kind is a modern trend in email and SMS. It's called text-speak.

    Linguists, I guess, have yet to coin a term for this phenomenon..

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