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ATT/Cingular Wireless Telephone commercial

Dynamic English

CONTENTS
About This Issue
Change Is Gonna Do Ya Good
Unraveling the Mysteries: Tools for Decoding Slang
The Language of Blogging
Youth Speak
Game On! Sports and Recreation Idioms in American English
What』s New? The Effect of Hip-Hop Culture on Everyday English
Spanglish: Speaking la Lengua Loca
From Arabic to English
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Dynamic English
Arabic in the Saddle
Additional Resources
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Introduction: A mother and daughter speak to each other using the letter system teens use for text messaging - broadcast of this humorous, and exagerated commercial included the subtitles shown.

Transcript:

Mother: Beth Ann!

Beth Ann: W U ? (What's up?)

Mother: Your cell phone bill is what's up. All this texting!

Beth Ann: omg inbd (oh, my gosh, it's no big deal)

Mother: It is a big deal. Who are you texting 50 times a day?

Beth Ann: idk my bff Jill?

Mother: Tell your bff Jill that I'm taking away your phone.

Beth Ann: tisnf! (this is so not fair)

Mother: Me paying this phone bill, that's what's s-n-f!

Announcer: Now texting is nbg (no big deal)