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Instances of informal language in texting interactions.
| Informal language | Nurse (n=72) n (%) |
Participant (n=78) n (%) |
| Contraction | 52 (72) | 27 (35) |
| Abbreviation | 14 (19) | 19 (24) |
| Emoticons | 0 (0) | 10 (13) |
| Text talk | 2 (3) | 13 (17) |
| Multiple punctuations | 4 (6) | 0 (0) |
| Informal words | 0 (0) | 9 (11) |
