Isms: Views on life in rural America

K, ru an abbrevi8or?

Or, do you tend to write text messages in complete sentences?

Nine times out of ten, I fall into category 2. Occasionally, I’ll send a ‘K’ response, type a ‘U’ instead of “you,” and, if I use voice text, who knows how it will turn out.

A study published in the Nov. 14 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 99.3% of texters use abbreviations that they believe save time.

Yet, recent studies by David Fang, Sam Maglio and Yiran Zhang report that abbreviation use in communication adds to an ever-widening communication gap.

The researchers reported that 90.1% of American t...