The case study examines the beginnings and development of SMS messages, their current position in society, and their potential future. The development of orthographic guidelines for writing the abbreviation SMS, its placement in the Slovenian standard language, and the special textual forms it occupies are investigated. In the analytical part of the study, new terms are introduced, and the previously presented criteria are checked against the selected corpus. In the conclusion, the two theses that SMS is its own text type and that the relationship between writers influences formulation are verified. The characteristics of the SMS messages taken from the corpus are given, and the findings are summarized.
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