I spend a lot of time online, but just can’t bring myself to embrace the “net lingo.” I’m a texter who hates text speak.
I feel like it’s cheating, or maybe I just love words so much, that I don’t want to cut them off at the limbs. That’s what it feels like to me.
There’s no poetry to it. And honestly, it looks weird! It kinda freaks me the hell out!
WHAT ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE SAYING TO EACH OTHER??
I’m very serious about this. I have a problem with it. And I feel like the internet world is passing me by. Soon everyone will be communicating in a different language, and I’ll be left in a corner talking to my dog about the good ole’ times when people used full sentences.
I don’t want to sit in the corner.
So, I’m trying immersion therapy.
Today’s post will be written in mostly text speak and chat abbreviations.
And yes, I had to look most of this shit up:
OMG, I was AH- it was SSDD, and DH walks in and says “Y? is it so dirty in here?”
At first I was like ;S
But then, he did a little *w* and I knew he was JJA.
He actually started to do a little dance, and I wasn’t just LOL, or ROTFL, or even ROTFLMFAO, I was actually about to SMP- because at this point he was doing a “show” and it was SRO.
Finally, I had to say STFU, because my stomach hurt from SWL, and he got all SSC.
Sometimes I really do <333 that dude, I mean @TEOTD it’s 14AA41 & FBOW in this house. Plus, imma BUBU and he knows it.
DH helps me T+ & I hope I do the same.
+ , the 8 is good… & I hope that’s not 511.
Anyway, this at all I can muster because I’m AAK, and ICYMI- this freaks me out!!
So Dm, @me, or fb with ur A/S/L/P & we’ll ?^ L8tr
Or… u can TABOOMA.
XOXO,
MNBB
::poof::
Oh no – I need a translater. I’m so behind! Imagine that I was actually snobby about spelling out every word. I always feel superior when I type Good Morning instead of “GM”. Now, I can see that I’m so behind the times.
Oh, I know! I used to feel superior about it too- now I’m just starting to feel lost…
and maybe still a little superior, but that’s just because I’m better than everyone else.
Holy poo! The only one I got was DH. That makes me old, doesn’t it?
ha ha, it took me forever to translate. I have an iphone now and have people text me. I write out everything which I am sure is annoying to everyone. lol
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I got a headache from trying to read these sentences. I am also guilty of using some txt speak . I think I will think twice about this from now on!
I say we embrace our love of words. It’s one thing to abbreviate because you are texting on a phone from a few years ago where the buttons and text functions are complicated and tiresome. It’s another thing that it has morphed into actual language that people use in paragraphs and daily spoken language.
My husband cam home last week and was flabbergasted by the fact that he’d had 3 young women (late teens/early 20s) in his cab and they were speaking in text abbreviations. He had no idea what they were saying, despite being able to quote them. The only thing I could decipher from his story was the OMG.
I can’t and probably will never bring myself to use text terms. I have a qwerty keyboard on my phone. So, I can text regular words just fine.
When I get a text from my 54 year old mother in law that says “C U in 15″ I want to gag.
Here here!
I agree, my fellow lover of words.
Text speak be damned.
- Immersion Therapy did not work.
I use a few text speak things, but nothing too difficult to decipher. My mom likes to make up imaginary things when she texts me…though I can tell they are fake because she has less of a grasp on text speak than I do!
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Wow, you lost me at AH! I HATE texting. My 2 teenage daughters do it NON-STOP and my husband is almost as bad. They text us when they are out somewhere and I have asked them a thousand time to just CALL us instead. It is SO much quicker, at least for me, to just pick up the phone and get the conversation over with. UGH!!
BTW, I just had my 18 y/o daughter come in and read your post and she didn't understand most of it. That makes me feel a little better. :0) I have to admit that they usually use complete words and sentences when they text. I guess I have that to be thankful for.
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