A new language is being developed by mobile phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets.
Key words are replaced by the first alternative that comes up on a mobile phone using predictive text -- changing 'cool' into 'book', 'awake' into 'cycle', 'beer' into adds', 'pub' into 'sub' and 'barmaid' into 'carnage'.
The replacement words -- technically paragrams, but commonly known as textonyms, adaptonyms or cellodromes -- are becoming part of regular teen banter."
Textonyms give mobile phone addicts a new language�
Textonyms! Cellodromes! Swoon!
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