The main innovation generated linguistically from Twitter is brevity, the most visible effect of the need to condense the thought in little more than 100 characters. Its most immediate consequence? Nell’attingere to reality language is forced to filter it, selecting only certain sections and thus bringing back a “shortened” version. Typically the sake of brevity, the formularity, the tendency to telegraphic style, if approaching Twitter to certain communication exchanges that (still) take place via SMS, do not lead in any case to accommodate the well known phenomena of cancellation of linguistic material that occur in ‘ “essemmessese” wild.
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