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Find linguistic phenomena in the quotations
1. There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do (Bill Wat­terson). 2. Those who attempt the absurd will accomplish the impossible (Albert Einstein). 3. In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned (Jane Haddam). 4. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work (Robert Frost). 5. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self (Cyril Connolly).
Theme 9
COMPRESSION

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  AUOK, M8?
  
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  Gr8, F2T. Cm ASAP
  
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  DK, mb L8r
  
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  ILBL8 4 skol
  
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  KC. ILW8 4U
  
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  IOU
  
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  CUTNTE
  

Discussion

1. 
   Compression, general description.
   
2. 
   Shortening:
   

1. 
   types and peculiarities of abbreviations;
   
2. 
   types and peculiarities of clippings;
   
3. 
   types and peculiarities of telescoped words.
   

3. 
   Reversion.
   

Terminology
Shortening is the process of subtracting phonemes and/or morphemes from words and word-groups without changing their lexico-grammatical meaning. There are three basic types of shortening: abbreviation, clipping, blending.
Abbreviation [g_ibri:vi'eij'(g)n] is a process of shortening the result of which is a word made up of the initial letters or syllables of the components of a word-group or a compound word.