Hi Gang! It’s GAME DAY! This goes with my blog post for tomorrow so this will be fun! Okay, ready to play?
So, how many of us text? All, a few, only when you have to? Well here’s a little game to get us all warmed up for tomorrow’s blog post. And this just isn’t about texting, but applies to different forms of social media as well!
Texting involves abbreviating and if you’re like me, you only know a handful! I look at what my kids text or put on their social media and can’t understand half of it. So for the rest of us, here are some guides …
So for our game, try to make a sentence using just these abbreviations! Example: 2day HMU L8R. Translation: Today hit me up later. And yes, you can add a regular word or two. Such as, Hey Sally, 2day HMU L8TR! I’ll pick not one but THREE lucky winners to receive an e-book of mine of thier choice! Have fun!
IMHO IDK FYI I can LMAO about this post!! LOL!!
Hahahaha! It took me a while to find IDK to see what it meant so I could read your sentence, Teresa!
CU 2moro, BFF. IMO UR GR8!
IMO AFAIK UWB MY BFF
Egads, this is like deciphering some sort of morse code to read all of these!
Oh, my gosh!! I can’t even read these let alone figure them out! LOL!
Fun game, Kit!
Yes, well, wait until tomorrow’s blog post! LOL!
I can’t wrap my head around those! Lol!!!
Don’t feel bad, Trudy, neither can I! It’s like learning another language!
IMO this can be complicated. LOL.
You said it! And to think some folks have all of these memorized and its all they use. Along with the occasional actual word or two.
Oh my goodness! This is like Pig Latin. I never could do that either. LOL! 🙂 BTW, Fun game, Kit.
Oh gosh, I’d forgotten about Pig Latin. I remember having to learn that in school.
HAND IRL! 🙂
This is starting to remind of the Little Orphan Annie decoder Ralphie used in A Christmas Story!
CU This WKND
Ah ha! I didn’t have to use the guides for this one!
GM! Blessings 2U.
Oh, oh! I got this one two. Whew, that’s two in a row and didn’t have to decode!
I always spell everything out in a text just like I do in an email. If someone were to use these shortcuts, I would be lost. I’m glad the couple of people that text me all use real words too.
FYI UR SIS LMK UR POV 2day. 4WIW, IDC. LOL! That was more work than spelling.
Janine, this is going to take me at least 15 minutes to decipher!
It took me even longer to write it. ? I had to keep looking back at the shortcuts you listed. If I’m going to do something, you know I’m going to go all out. ?
Remind me not to get into one of these abbreviated conversations with you! It could take days …
HMU L8TR 2day or Tmrw
LTNS, SIS MU. PLS call me 2nite.
Hey, Ladies, FWIW, these games IMO are GR8 fun.
WB SIS LTNS PLS LMK ASAP , CU 2moro ILU (not entering the giveaway,but Thank you.)
Have copied your charts above so I will have it on hand to decipher some of what I see on the phone or twitter. Some are commonsense, but….some of us do not always do well in that department.
TY 4 J4F info. CU 2moro.
PLS RTM SIS thanks quilting dash lady at comcast.net
FWIW, I lrned 2 wrte in abbrvtd cde in the 90s, b4 txtng.
TY!
As you can see, it’s not so easy to message like this. Ah me, as I get older I guess I don’t have as many brain cells as I used to! I’ll stick to spelling everything out!
LTNS