When he found that abbreviated texts only removed 20% of letters, he decided to enter the field of pictographic language.

It contains the abbreviated text of a lecture series delivered by Thomas Mann from February to May of that year, all across the United States.

In a few years, you'll be able to hear the author's voice - should you so wish - or switch between script and oral versions, full-text or abbreviated text, or digest.

Inside the inner layer of a 2-layered circle, there is a 6-sided star in white, inside of which the abbreviated text of the organisation - HSA is inscribed, red in color.

The marking is usually stamped on the underside of the barrel for older guns without choke tubes, or is spelled out in abbreviated text on the barrel near the gauge marking.

Howard's punchy, abbreviated text is full of vim as she describes the various activities and sounds ("ZOOM ZOOM BARRUMMM!")

You might not know whether to LOL or say IDK, IDC or even OMG when you overhear your kid talking or see the crazily abbreviated text messages he's sending to friends.