Friday, April 11, 2008

The List of Chat Acronyms & Text Message Shorthand

Hi All,



Do you know what "Texting" is?



Your Grandkids do; Texters use a recognized language consisting of acromyms and arcane Code Equivalents used to communicate across the WWW.


With more than 79 million people texting regularly, it's no wonder you've seen this cryptic looking code!



Commonly used wherever people get online -- including IM'ing, (Instant Messenging), SMS'ing, (Short Message Service), cell phones, Blackberries, PDAs, (Personal Data Assistant), Web sites, games, newsgroup postings, in chat rooms, on blogs --



these abbreviations are used by people to communicate with each other. The actual definition of an acronym and text shorthand may be found here:



http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm



Learn how and give it a try.



Dave



7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Dave,

IMAO - In my arrogant opinion

ROTFLMAO - that was already answered on another post, but just in case you missed it -

Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off!

fi fi la foof

Anonymous said...

Texting ou Français? Je préfère le français. La de La d'Oh!

Translation: Texting or French? I prefer French. Oh la la!

Mike says - "boring"

Mike said...

Great list Dave , much better than the one I sent to Chris. Mike

Anonymous said...

XLNT Mike.

TTFN...

Anonymous said...

Excellent Mike.

ta ta for now...

elaineb said...

TTFN ta ta for now... was in use in WWII in olde England how can it be netlingo! 8(

UCO President said...

Hi Elaine,
How indeed;

In The Tempest, Shakespeare said it best:

"what's past is prologue."

TTFN

Dave