For example, in English, you might type something like:

r u going out 2nite?

Instead of:

Are you going out tonight?

How does that sort of thing work when texting in a logographic language? Is it just emoji city, or can they mix and match characters to make things more compact?

And similarly, is there a formal journalistic shorthand system that gets used when jotting down comments in real-time, e.g. in China, Korea or Japan?

Thank you kindly!

  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Do you read any social media with Gen z? Shorthand is alive and well, it just changed how it’s shortened.

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    bro rq wyd tn finna slide by in min fr fr ong v gd story

    Brother real quick what’re you doing tonight, fixing to slide by in a minute for real, for real, on god very good story