Texting - a NEW LANGUAGE?

Hi,

I have just learnt that young people (I think mostly between teen-agers or am I wrong?) have a kind of other language they use when they are texting. I know that I am far from young and my kids are not living home anymore so I am a kind of outdated in that aspect but WOW this is a kind of interesting.

Do you know what that means if you get it in a text message? WTWPY? I did not.
It means "What time we picking you up?"

You might know what LOL or BRB means, or maybe not either. It means LOL (laugh out loud) and BRB means (be right back).

This is an actual "alphabet lingo" that makes up this texting language.

It works one of two ways. One, they take the first letter of every word they want to say and rund them together ith no punctuation whatsoever.

Or two, they take out every vowel from each word and rund those vowel-less "word" combinations together, with spaces in between. It looks like this: B HM SN, MVS GT OT L8 for "Be home soon, movies got out late."

So here is some other short cuts you might need to learn:

ADDY - address
AML - all my love
NUM - number
AIGHT - alright
B4U - before you
B4N - bye for now
BC - because
BF - boyfriend
BFFTTE - best friends forever 'till the end
BON - believe it or not
BTW - be the way
BZ - buzy
C-P - sleepy
C-T city
C/S change of subject
CRAT - can't remember a thing
DA - the
DAT - that
DDSOS - different day same ol' stuff
DOOD - dude
F@F - face to face
FBOCD - Facebook obsessive compulsive disorder
FCOL - for crying out loud
G2G - got to go
GAS - got a second
GAWD - God
GF - girlfriend
GI - Goggle it
GN - goodnight
GRATZ - congratulations
GRRLS - girls
HAK - hugs and kisses
H/O hold please
HAR - hit and run
IDC - I don't care
IDK - I don't know
JK - just kidding
L8R - later
MSOCD - My Space obsessive compulsive disorder
RITE - right
SU - shut up
TM - them
TTYL - talk to you later
TY - thank you
UR- your
WASSUP - what's up?
W/E - whatever
WUT - what
YW - you're welcome

Isn't it interesting? WOW.

Marianne