Nevertheless, there are no standard rules for the creation and use of SMS languages. One example is the use of "tomoz" instead of "tomorrow". In general, SMS language thus permits the sender to type less and communicate more quickly than one could without such shortcuts. 'OMG' was used by a septuagenarian naval hero, admiral of the fleet Lord Fisher, in 1917". Faramerz Dabhoiwala wrote in The Guardian in 2016: "modern usages that horrify linguistic purists in fact have deep historical roots. Similar elliptical styles of writing can be traced to the days of telegraphese 120 years back, when telegraph operators were reported to use abbreviations similar to modern text when chatting amongst themselves in between the sending of official messages. Likewise, such a change sought to accommodate the small number of characters allowed per message, and to increase convenience for the time-consuming and often small keyboards on mobile phones. It shares some characteristics with internet and Telex speak following from how its evolution is rather symbiotic to the evolution of use of shorthand in chat rooms.
Together with the difficulty and inefficiency in creating messages, it led the desire for a more economical language for the new medium. It follows from how early SMS permitted only 160 characters and that carriers began charging a small fee for each message sent (and sometimes received). It seeks to use the fewest letters to produce ultra-concise words and sentiments in dealing with the space, time, and cost constraints of text messaging. SMS language is similar to telegraphs' language where charges were by the word. 5.1 Differences between male and female use of SMS language.4.3.1 Effect on verbal language use and communication.4.2.1 Effect on verbal language use and literacy.3.3 A single letter or digit can replace a word, syllable, or phoneme.2.5.2 Emoji, asterisk emoting, and emoticons.2.5 Paralinguistic and prosodic features.2.4 Pictograms and logograms (rebus abbreviation).2.2.1 Pragmatics and context in interpretation of ambiguous shortenings.2.2 Reductions and shortenings, and omission of parts of speech.2.1 Initializations (acronyms and abbreviations composed of initials).1.1 SMS language as a multilingual entity.