HA! LOL!
Have you ever wondered what the sender is trying to say and you cannot make heads or tails out of the text message?
One way to check is visit a website called URBAN DICTIONARY that has a ton of these abbreviations and ideas about what a Language of a particular text message could be. Another way is to text back the sender and ask them to explain some terms in the message.
The one thing I did notice about text messaging is that 99% of the time, the text abbreviation is in some form of English translation. LOL or "Laugh out Loud" is a popular three-letter acronym that is used in all kinds of Languages, so that is one of the more popular text abbreviations. New abbreviations come out everyday, and could cause confusion until they become popular.
For example, "SMH" which means "shaking my head." This abbreviation was actually asked about on Google searches 12,000 + times a month. So many people have been using SMH, but many people do not know what it means. So you can see easily that the Language is not perfected, nor will it ever be. The popularity of certain text acronyms and how fast they take on a definition of their own, is really an amazing study. I may do an article about that in the future.
But for now, we know that when a text message arrives, many times the reader does not understand the text itself. Obviously not all the time, but I have had to ask a friend, what does that mean? What Language is that? Is that English? Is that an acronym? I then "Google it" and find out that it's a text language that people are using.
Also some text lingo becomes less popular over time. Take the three letter BFF for example. "Best Friend Forever" was really popular a few years back, I believe it has died off since, and may become extinct in the future. Imagine that someday we will be testing the lifespan of certain popular text acronyms and how fast they grow to how fast they die out.
Back to Urban Dictionary for a second. I am not sure if that website started out determining what certain text language means, but many have turned it into a dictionary, more or less, for cell phone text message jargon. Naturally you will find other words on the website, some nice, some pretty dirty, but these are words that people basically made up. I've even had a word I used allot, that is not a normal English word, and put it on urban dictionary, gave the definition and used it in a sentence, and it was approved. If you are wondering, that word was "cozed." look it up! LOL
So as texting becomes more and more popular, more and more text language will be born. The mind of a person who can figure out three letters and turn that into the right phrase will do well, those without a mind for that, will have a harder time, but like any language, some pick up a second and third language faster than others.
Here are a few examples, of 2, 3 and 4 letter texting phrases that I just made up, see if you can guess what they mean:
TYYT
CYT
GOTE
GF
SSDD
These are probably good examples of something you may see when asking a friend, "what does that mean"?
Let me give you the answers, at least this is what was in my mind when I made them up:
TYYT = Talk To You Tomorrow
CYT = See You Tonight (the C is short for see)
GOTE = Going Out To Eat
GF = Gone Fishing
SSDD = Same Stuff Different Day
So there you have it, the answers for my made up text lingo. Make your own up and send them to friends. You could possibly make the next big text word!
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