Ah, speaking of lingo…my tribute is to all things texting…I know my spellcheck is going to go crazy with this one.
I must be old, because what the heck did you just type on my stinking screen?!?!? That is how I feel after a chat fest with the teens I work with on my favorite possession, the Blackberry Curve. Beautiful piece of machinery. Rabbit trail…
Do you remember back in the day when these oh so rad phrases would pop up on every wallet size school picture…K.I.T. (keep in touch) or ttfn (ta ta for now)…
They were so “in” and cool to write. Well, they married, reproduced and their offspring morphed into this mutant world of complete language confusion! Really. Do you know how long it took me to find out what wdymbt means!? I know, half of you are saying what and the other half are saying easy…it means what do you mean by that?
wdyt – dgt – dkdc – yhni……
WHAT??? It actually takes me longer to find the first letter of each phrase in my head and then type it than it would to just type the whole thing out! And then trying to understand what comes over from their screen…I feel like an idiot.
I fear that one day soon, something I type that is innocent to me may end up having Homeland Security at my door.
Well, it’s Ti2G!! My head hurts…
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Great tribute! I know EXACTLY what you mean. Getting messages from my teenage brothers often leads to frustrated phonecalls to say “What did you just say to me??”
Seriously.
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LMAO
oops…I just did it too..
I feel you on this…I cant translate half of what you just tributed…but we have to keep up, or the kids wont want to talk to us anymore!!!
Loved it!
Jay
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haha great tribute. I have no idea what any of those mean by the way.
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I understood about 1/2 of that. The title threw me though….tran 18 N?? what is trans eighteen N? I got it now though
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LOL…oh how I can relate to this post!!!!
GREAT Tuesday Tribute!
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Thank God you added the translation to most of that. That is a tribute to how old I am! LOL…OMG…LMAO…crap!
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I’m such a texting dummy. I met up with a friend from out of state a couple months ago, and she texted me to tell me she was running late. I don’t even have texting on my plan, so when I finally saw her I had to admit that my text back to her was the first text I’d ever written. It’s crazy how prevalent it is everywhere, isn’t it?
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Not only is your blog entertaining, but informative as well!
I had no idea what the majority of those meant! I need a decoder for sure!
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OMGosh!!! Hilarious!!! It took me a sec to ‘translate’ your title! LOLOL
Isn’t the Curve addicting??!! Brian and I just bought ours last weekend. This is my first time with a text phone…and having FB on my Blackberry?!!! Awesome…and oh so not good!
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So true! But I'm 99% sure rad is on it's way back so use it with pride… if you don't feel like a shmuck doing so!
Happy SITS Sharefest
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Hey SITSTA you might be my BFF and SWAK – but I agree, I don’t know most of the new lingo!
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