Annika: “Yo yo what’s up girl” (Speech like interjection)
Me: “Hi bro!!!!!!!!” (Punctuation added for effect)
Annika: “How was it? Wait tell me at school! R u in mufti?” (Logograms)
Me: “Yes I am in mufti”
Me: “Are we actually allowed? Our teachers just said we can wear it if we want to”
Annika: “Yay!” (Speech like interjection)
Annika: “The year eights are”
Annika: “R u on the bus” (ellipsis)
Me: “No sorry not on_bus” (ellipsis)
Annika: “Oh man” (slang)
Me: “:-P” (Emoticon)
Annika (the day after): “Morning! 🙂 _still ready for me at 8:15?” (Emoticon, ellipsis)
Me: “Yeee boiii” (repeated letters for emphasis)
Annika: “And pick up at 9:30″ (ellipsis)
Me: “Cool as bruh” (slang)
Annika: “I made cake yesterday too!”
Me: “Yumm!!! Ur cakes are the best :p :p” (Repeated letters & punctuation, Logogram, Emoticon)
Annika: “🙂” (emoticon)
Annika: “_Leaving now might be on time not early” (ellipsis, omitted words and punctuation)
Annika: “At_bridge now” (ellipsis)
Me: “Cool beans” (slang)
Me (later on): “DUMBLEDORE IS EPIC” (Uppercase to donate tone) (Change of subject with no apparent reason – I’m not sure of the term for this)
Annika: “Haha I know! R u on the fifth one?”
Me: “Yes_still on the 5th” (ellipsis)
Annika: “Nice, we’re at the house working”
Me: “Fun!! Well I hope its fun anyway haha” (Omitted punctuation, Repeated punctuation, speech-like interjection)
Annika: “Hah! We’re sanding all_the doorways” (ellipsis)
Me: “Wait_ can I call u real quick_” (Logogram, contraction, omitted punctuation)
Annika: “Sure”
Me: “I’ll let u get back to your sanding now hehehe”
Annika: “O:-)”
Me: “l:D”
Annika: “It was an angel”
Me: “Hahahahaha nice” (Speech like interjection, repetition for emphasis)
Me: “_”
Annika: “_Going home for lunch! Yea boi!” (ellipsis, slang)
Me: “Yea boiiiii!!” (slang, repeated letters and punctuation)
Annika: “Should I have a wrap or a pita bread_” (Omitted punctuation)
Annika: “Ok_I’m having pita bread”
Annika: “Can I call you_”
Me: “Sure”
Me: “Lol” (Acronym)
THE END
(N.B In this text conversation, both Annika and I had autocorrect turned on otherwise our spelling would be shocking! There would also be no capital letters involved because that is how we actually type.)
