This article examines university students’ remote communication habits and language used in texting and writing messages in mobile apps. A total of 3,900 messages by students at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts were analyzed, and a survey of their communication habits was carried out. To place their communication within a wider context, ten lengthy conversations were also analyzed. Most students communicate with one another remotely through messages, adapting their communication to the addressee and messaging purpose. Their messages are mostly short, and they usually break up their replies into several messages. The common features of private messages between peers include non-standard use of punctuation and capitalization, absence of diacritics, spelling words based on how they are pronounced, omitting vowels, and using non-standard Slovenian and colloquial word order.
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