Finally, practitioners of the texting language excel in devising acronyms which condense, sometimes in a radical way, multi-word units: this is for instance the case with afair, which stands for as far as I recall.
from a natural language processing (NLP) point of view, these messages contain an abnormally high rate of out-of-vocabulary forms, and the ambiguity of existing word forms is aggravated, two factors that contribute to degrade the performance of natural language processing tools.