http://aatia.net/blog/2008/07/17/omg/ www.aatia.net Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:52:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://aatia.net/blog/2008/07/17/omg/#comment-84 Michael Conner Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:49:28 +0000 http://aatia.net/blog/?p=273#comment-84 Text messaging abbreviations used by Chinese: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-chinese.text.0812aug12,0,606145.story 88! Text messaging abbreviations used by Chinese: http://www.chicagotribune.com/…..6145.story 88!

]]> http://aatia.net/blog/2008/07/17/omg/#comment-76 clubach Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:16:54 +0000 http://aatia.net/blog/?p=273#comment-76 Text messaging isn't a fad or a craze in the Philippines. During the 20th century only about 20% of the population could afford or were allowed to have landline telephones. Cellphones with prepaid accounts means that now about 80% of the population has telephones. If you buy a P300 phone card (about US $6) you can talk on your phone for half an hour. Or you can send 300 messages at a cost of P1 each. Text messaging is the norm. Talking on the phone is for people with money to burn. Text messaging isn’t a fad or a craze in the Philippines. During the 20th century only about 20% of the population could afford or were allowed to have landline telephones. Cellphones with prepaid accounts means that now about 80% of the population has telephones. If you buy a P300 phone card (about US $6) you can talk on your phone for half an hour. Or you can send 300 messages at a cost of P1 each. Text messaging is the norm. Talking on the phone is for people with money to burn.

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