Imagine a new message comes in on your HP and u see this:
CU L8r @ *$ k?
My reaction - "What on earth is this?"
My wife's - "Is your friend being vulgar?"
If this is how u SMS, Congratulations! U are part of the millennium generation!
For the rest of us, u are probably born in a time when there was NKOTB, Westlife and 'Smash Hits' was part of your weekly diet.
Being in a nation where mobile phones have at least 95% penetration, SMS messaging or "Texting" is part of our everyday lifestyle.
But who would have guessed how SMSing can morph into something filled with various short forms.
Just the other day, I asked my youth - What is TPY? (Toa Payoh)
Another one that confused me initially:
Meet u later at PS? (My initial thought - P.S? - is that Pang Sai?)
Man...there are just so many short forms...& it's getting harder to keep up.
As an Aspiring Youth Pastor & at the same time, needing to stay relevant for my children, here are some other important acronyms that I picked up the past week.
1. POS (Parents Over Shoulder) - so must be discreet
2. PAL (Parents are Listening) - so I am going to lie rite now
3. P911 (Parents Alert) - Better be careful!
In case you were wondering, what is:
CU L8r @ *$ k?
It means - See you later at Starbucks, ok?
8 Comments:
wow congrats for your Blog Award!
keep up the good work!
It bothers me to the core that Starbucks has graduated to text speak. I'm not entirely sure why, but it does. Nice post. I never would have guessed it (FWIW, I'm no good at deciphering license plate speak either).
Great site!
Unbelievably - I could read & understand that convulated sms! Haha... I know someone (in Sec school) who, over MSN, writes "iie" for "I" and "ue" for "you". Trick is to read quick and think of the FIRST thing that comes to mind!
ED - Fingertalks
Tks..do drop by again!
Ed - San
Wow...u very smart lei...that's why u are the scrabble queen
LOL... "Scrabble Queen"... Nah - far from it! It's just practice does make perfect for such SMSes! Haha!
Time to meet our (not) generation. ^^,
Btw, thanks for leaving a comment on my blog Ed.
Cheers!
I can decipher CU L8R @ but i didn't know *$k = starbucks.. haha, your friend is indeed living in this century. i better start learning these abbreviations in case Shane starts messaging me in encrypted language!! :)
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