The British love sending text messages. They send more than 2.5 billion every month. And most people now understand the language of text, with its numbers and missing (letter), In fact, when a student atScottish school wrote the whole article “in txt”, his teacher give him “c+4 f4t” (“c + for effort”).
texing is a cheap way of staying in touch with your friends, it can also bring problems. In 2005, a British teenager became (one ) person in the world to receive treatment for an addiction(沉溺) to text messaging. In one year, the nineteen-year-old spent about £4,500
texts.
For some people, text messaging(change) their lives already. For example, James Trusler from England travels around the world(take) part in texting competitions and TV shows. He's the world's fastest texter and recently set a new world record while he was appearing on Australian TV. He texted: “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serraslmus and Pygocentrus(脂鲤属和红肚属水虎鱼)are(terrible) freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human. ” took him 67 seconds. James sends a lot of text messages-about 2,500 a month. But he doesn't get big billshe works for a large mobile phone company!