不再是写字与人交流信息的时代了，我们都在敲键盘，开始形成了打字特有的用语习惯，英语的大小写不再严格使用，大写会用来表达情绪和强调，使用句号、反问句等书面语也都有了新变化，甚至ok和ok.的语气都完全不同。互联网语言所有变体都有不同语域，了解这些变化并留意有些场合发信息打字不能太马虎。

Dialogue:

text messages –the good, the bad, and the sloppy

dialogue 1

Jingjing: Mark, ______ this message I received from______.

Mark: Youjust want me ______, or...

Jingjing: I'm______. I can't tell if ______.

Mark: It'ssometimes ______. Let's ______.

Jingjing: See what's puzzled me? She's ______ for a few words. Isn't that______?

Mark: Itcould be, if someone types a whole sentence______. There are justa few words______. I think she capitalized those ______.

Jingjing: Soyou don't think______?

Mark: She'sjust reminding you to ______ until the next time she sees you,right? There's no need to ______.

Jingjing: Doyou ______ when you send texts?

Mark: ______. Most folks think______.

Jingjing: What about______?

Mark: Nowadays, ______, that's almost impossible.

Jingjing: Iused to get texts from people ______. Those were hardto read.

Mark: Theysure were. But we all knew ______.

Jingjing: Back then, I usually felt happier ______, instead of one thatcame much later but was ______.

Mark: Do youremember ______ people sometimes ______?

Jingjing: You mean, like, when people wrote the letters C and U together tomean ______?

Mark: Exactly.

Jingjing: ______, of those, was 3Q.

Mark: Thenumber 3, ______? What did that mean?

Jingjing: Thankyou: ______ and then say the letter Q.

Mark: Oh, san-Q. That's______!

dialogue 2

Jingjing: Mark, can you think of any other ______people have developedwhen______?

Mark: Well,one that ______is when people send voice messages instead of______.

Jingjing: I dothat once ______, with my friends. I know it can ______.

Mark: Butabout______, I remember______ about what was the correct wayto write OK.

Jingjing: Did it ______?

Mark: Both,it was______, just about OK.

Jingjing: Well, ______. I wonder______.

Mark: OK wasnever a word. Two hundred years ago, the word correct ______. Sometimes people would write oll korrect at the bottom of a document orsomething. ______.

Jingjing: Oh, so it was______.

Mark: Yeah,it's the first two letters ______. The first abbreviation we knowabout ______1839.

Jingjing: So, if people think they need to ______, and spell it as o-k-a-y,they're______.

Mark: Alittle one—it's not like OK______ and ______ on the partof someone who spells it out with four letters.

Jingjing: Whatabout ______—are we______?

Mark: Asthat kind of abbreviation, it ______, just like CCTV, ______.

Jingjing: Onthe other hand, if someone's ______ to their friend, it's ______ ifthey leave OK in lower-case, is it?

Mark: Nah,______. It couldn't______. OK just means OK.

Jingjing: What about when people ______?

Mark: Youmean like o-kaaay (spelled ______), or traffic issooo heavy (with ______)?

Jingjing: Yeah, does that ______?

Mark: Iwouldn't ______. Most people know better, right? Apartfrom that, I think______.

Jingjing: There's a lot to ______ when writing a text.

Mark: Thankgoodness______, right?

new words andphrases

get a load of<this/that> <obj.>:

<be>stumped:

a look-see:

read into<something>:

once in a bluemoon:

broad strokes:

splitting hairs: