Questão PET - Read the text and answer the following questions.

3 – Read the text and answer the following questions. 

a) What kind of text is it? 

b) What does this text tell us about texting? 

c) Based on the text, can we say that there is a relationship between SMS speak (texting abbreviations) and a type of literature of the past? 

d) Do you think a poem written in this format today would be considered “literature”? Why (not)? 

e) Would you say this text is informal only because Mark Brown uses some abbreviations in some parts?

f) Why did Mark Brown choose to use the abbreviations? 

g) In your opinion, what kind of people went to the exhibition? Why?

RESPOSTA:

a) It is a news report.

b) It says texting is not new.

c) Yes, we can. In “emblematic poetry”, the writer combines numbers and letters.

d) Yes, I believe that with the evolution of online communication a poem  in this format would be well accepted and understood by everyone.

e) Yes, despite being a report, the author used informal language,  purposely, to get the attention of readers. 

f) He used abbreviations to get readers' attention and show that even with abbreviations we can understand the text perfectly.

g) Language, communication and history scholars, students in general, historians, poets, writers and people interested in learning about the history of communication and writing.