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** Recently, Twitter has brought back this mode of English-mangling. With only 140 characters, you either sacrifice grammar or risk running o
*** Another option would be the logical one to shorten the message...
*** Not all messages can be shortened, though. You could of course relay messages across multiple tweets, as well.
*** Or post the whole thing to your blog or to a pastebin such as [http://twitlonger.com/ twitlonger] and summarize with a link in your Tweet.
** Text messaging can be this way. Originally, it could be chalked up to character limits and an inconvenient 'keyboard' (the phone's dialing pad).
* Justified in newspaper headlines, which routinely omit "the" from phrases for brevity's sake.
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* [[wikipedia:Expressive aphasia|Expressive aphasia]] is an involuntary version of this. Basically, the Broca's area-the part of the brain that controls grammar-is damaged. Sufferers of this condition typically speak very slowly and their sentences often lack pronouns, articles, and conjunctions. Instead of saying "There are three bowls in the cabinet," a person with expressive aphasia would say "bowl bowl bowl three cabinet."
* The development of English itself is bound up in this trope. Old English, having developed from several west germanic dialects along the North Sea coast and later came into extensive contact with Old Norse, was losing many inflections well before 1066. As for afterwards, many described the developing standard as what Norman soldiers used to chat up Saxon barmaids.
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