Do you write in a different text-speak style than your friends? Scientists seem to think so. A group of experts from the University of Leicester in the UK are analyzing more than 1500 phone text messages to find evidence of scientific variations in different styles of text messaging so that police can use them as evidence.
At the moment, police can work out where a mobile physically was during a call, but they can't prove who was holding the phone and doing the texting. The new study is looking particularly at variations such as whether people use abbreviation or not, what words people miss out and if their spelling is always correct.
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