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[digidark]

Of late I have received lots of text messages from reletives and friends, with various abbreviations. They think they have invented something new. HA!


Try translating this


Gd dy 2 u, hw iz de wx wr ur.xyl shppng 2dy.


Answers on the back of a 20 pound note to digidark @ whoops forgot the rest

[Chocky]

I get them too Ian

c u l8er Ian

[dig deep]

Yeah they tried this stuff on me to

Soon they learned that I just deleted everything I couldn´t understand so they went back to common language

In a way I think it was started by the smilies and in time SMS´s was not that cheap(payed by the word I think) so they started to shorten it up.

Kind of useless today, You pay by the message - not by the words

[Chocky]

Still fun working it out

[digidark]

The message I posted wasnt actually a text message but a message I would send using something that was invented in 1832 and accepted in 1843.In the early 20th century the abbreviations were used so that the oprator didnt stay in the same place for too long.It was of course, the Morse Code.So the younguns think they invented it. Yeah! right.

Basically, apart from the obvious, all the vowels are disgarded.

[Chocky]

I think it's good and a bit of fun.
I often use TG. TTFN and brb

[maureen]

LOL, if any of my friends send me a text using text speak, I reply with one word, "pardon?" :

[digidark]

Nice one Maureen

[topper]

You are very lucky you did not get a warning infraction for posting text speak Ian...... it is not allowed on some forums you know

[Chocky]

Lol. No. It gets automatically removed