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Joe: Send me the fucking geo     For Standard English speakers this sentence would make not much sense at all. “geo” is a phrase students at LNS and other schools use to replace Geography. In this case, Joseph probably just couldn’t be bothered to complete the word, but even so, shortening it still made the same effect. This is also known as a contraction. Ignoring the non standard English, this sentence is also an imparative. Joseph is commanding me to send him the Geography homework. If we weren’t friends, this would be far from a suitable conversation starter.

Ibbz: Who the fuck u talkin to       This sentence involves a couple non standard English features. Ommision is used within the word “are”, omitted letters such as “g” from “talkin” and lopograms like “u”  >  You. There is also punctuation missing, the sentence is in fact a question, so a question mark is needed. Replacing a word with a letter is called a lopogram.

Joe: U             This is another lopogram. The word/Letter “U” in this instance recovers a whole sentence. I’m talking to you.

Ibbz: She gave it to u Monday        This sentence involves ommision, ” She gave it to u ON Monday.” It also has the lopogram of “u” for “you” which is a very common replacement in modern day chats.

Joe: I can’t find it        This is a perfectly standard English sentence. Apart from the missing full stop at the end.

Not the pic Of the sheet The writing      This sentence doesn’t make sense without commas.  The correct way of writing this sentence is; Not the pic of the sheet, the writing. There is also a contraction of the word “Picture” to “pic” but that is fairly understandable to most people.

Ibbz: Ive put it in my book you dumbass       Missing punctuation on “I’ve”. And a non standard English word in “dumbass”.

Joe: ???           Our new world of ios provides a large variety of emojis and flags, in this emoji sentence Joseph probably meant to say “Fuck Bosnia” but replaced it with a Bosnian flag and a gun pointing towards it. Because we are friends, I knew that this was a joke, or more commonly know in our society as “banter”.