The KNB is derived from standard practice in text messaging to make messages as short as possible when typed.
Welsh journalist and television reporter John Humphrys has criticized SMS language as "wrecking our language".
Based on research and experimental results, he disagrees with the popular view that the use of abbreviations and slang, such as those in SMS language, will lead to low literacy and bad spelling among children.
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