Much like the language associated with IM and chat, textese consists of abbreviation, logographic spelling and rebus forms of writing. In recent years, there have been linguistic analyses of texting in several languages, including Swedish (Hard af Segerstad 2002), Norwegian (ling 2005) and German (Doring 2002, cited in Ling and Baron 2007). Save for one study on British English( Thurlow 2003), there have been relatively few studies of the language forms associated with English-based texting. This can in part be attributed to the ubiquity of mobile phones and thus texting in Europe and Asia, versus the high percentage of personal computers and thus IM and chat in the US(see Ling and Baron 2007).