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| Keith: Hi, I’m Keith. |
| Sadia: Hey, and I’m Sadia. The focus of this lesson is texting and |
| multimedia messaging-- |
| Keith: It’s called: SMS and also MMS! |
| Sadia: You may have seen these acronyms before-- |
| Keith: Acronym? What’s that? |
| Sadia: An acronym is a word formed from the first |
| letters of the words in the name-- so, SMS and MMS are |
| acronyms. SMS stands for "SHORT MESSAGE |
| SERVICE." SHORT starts with an S, MESSAGE |
| starts with an M, and SERVICE starts with an S. |
| SMS. |
| Keith: So, probably MMS... that’s an acronym, too. And what that stands for is "MULTIMEDIA |
| MESSAGE SERVICE." MMS. |
| Sadia: Both SMS and MMS are types of messages |
| that can be sent or received using a mobile phone. |
| Keith: And, you may already know that the more popular of the two is SMS. |
| Sadia: Yeah, SMS messages-- commonly referred to as "text |
| messages"-- are the short, text-based messages you |
| may send to a friend, maybe, updating her on where you are-- |
| Keith: Or maybe what you did, what time you'll meet-- |
| Sadia: So, any information that is best |
| conveyed in short form. |
| Keith: Yeah, and actually, some people they don’t even call each other, they just communicate exclusively via SMS-- |
| Sadia: It’s a little weird, but it’s true! Some people prefer the |
| silent task of typing into a phone keypad to, you know, picking up the phone and calling someone. |
| Keith: Yeah, I guess so. |
| Sadia; I mean, I guess it’s smart if making noise is not an |
| option. |
| Keith: Yeah, maybe in a meeting or something. |
| Sadia: Ah, that’s true. |
| Keith: And SMS has given us some new words and phrases to |
| use though, right? |
| Sadia: Oh, definitely! The word "text, " which used to |
| refer to words printed on a page, has become a verb. |
| As in, "I'll text you when I'm on my way to pick you |
| up." |
| Keith:I’ll text you when the game finishes. |
| Sadia: Let's also talk briefly about MMS. |
| Keith: You probably remember, refers to |
| sound, video and photos. |
| Sadia: MMS technology allows multiple kinds of media to |
| be included or sent with standard text message |
| Keith: SMS, right. But, because it has advanced technological requirements |
| that may not be met by some phones, MMS |
| is not nearly as popular as SMS. |
| Sadia: Listeners, do you use your mobile phone to send texts? |
| Sadia: Let's take a look at some of the vocabulary for this Buzzwords lesson. |
| Sadia: SMS [natural native speed] |
| Keith: SMS |
| Sadia: acronym for "short message service"; text message |
| Keith: SMS [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: SMS [natural native speed] |
| Keith: MMS [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: MMS |
| Keith: acronym for "multimedia messaging service" |
| Sadia: MMS [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: MMS [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: message [natural native speed] |
| Keith: message |
| Sadia: a brief communication |
| Keith: message [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: message [natural native speed] |
| Keith: acronym [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: acronym |
| Keith: a shortened form of a name, using the first letter of |
| each word in the name |
| Sadia: acronym [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: acronym [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to text (verb) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to text |
| Sadia: to send a text-based message from a mobile phone to another mobile phone |
| Keith: to text (verb) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: to text (verb) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: multimedia [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: multimedia |
| Keith: containing more than one form of media (photo, video, |
| audio) |
| Sadia: multimedia [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: multimedia [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: keyboard |
| Keith: keyboard [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: the set of letter, number, and other buttons used to enter |
| data into a computer |
| Keith: keyboard [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: keyboard [natural native speed] |
| Keith: keypad [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: keypad |
| Keith: set of number and/or letter buttons, usually on a phone |
| Sadia: keypad [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: keypad [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to type [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to type |
| Sadia: to enter into a keyboard or keypad |
| Keith: to type [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: to type [natural native speed] |
| Keith: silent [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: silent |
| Keith: without sound |
| Sadia: silent [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: silent [natural native speed] |
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