Texting – The Quick and The Dead
My teen daughter is a damn quick texter.
How quick?
Let’s just say she makes me feel like a texting dinosaur.
Head over to the Hot Dads Blog and see how my daughter kicks my ass in an impromptu, unscripted, text message competition.
(If that preprogrammed link doesn’t work, head straight to Hot Dads Blog.)
I dare you to write your comment using only texting abbreviations.
R u up 4 it?
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Comment by Travis
| December 31st, 2009
R U able 2 SPK l33t?
And for added fun of an alternative culture to txt spk:
I pwned ur 3l33t skilz. ur uber haxor skilzs is the suxorz.
Haha! nu-uh, my 3l33t haxor skilzs is the roxxor.
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Comment by Danielle
| December 31st, 2009
I am the slowest text-r around. Can’t we all go back to actual conversations?
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Comment by Kelloggsville
| December 31st, 2009
quite often you will hear me exclaim “oh bugger it, I’ll ring instead -it’ll be quicker”
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Comment by Ginger Magnolia
| December 31st, 2009
My texting is pretty darn fast, but I REFUSE to use text-speak!
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Comment by lunaticg
| December 31st, 2009
Texting abbreviations?
I really don’t understand most of them.
Maybe I need to find a dictionary for that?
Happy new year 2010 David.
See you around.
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Comment by Mindy/Single Mom Says...
| December 31st, 2009
I’m shocked that your kids haven’t told you about T9! You are texting like a dinosaur!
T9 is where you hit the key only once for the appropriate letter and then after you type the whole word hit “options” to get the word you want if it didn’t automatically come up.
I do much prefer having a full keyboard though.
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Comment by Sandra
| December 31st, 2009
OMG, lol ;)
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Comment by *Juliette*
| December 31st, 2009
Sorry,
I’m so over texting ever since I looked in my boyfriend’s phone and saw that he’d been sexting up 3 other women besides me!
*Juliette*´s last blog ..The Telltale Texts
Comment by BigLittleWolf
| December 31st, 2009
Nope. Won’t butcher the language like that. I am a minimal texter, nd happy to admit it.
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Comment by Cece
| December 31st, 2009
I will tell you a true and funny texting story! One of my young staff, aged 22 is a very fluent texter. You know that age right? Their phone grows out of their ear or their hands….an extended body part? Yes!
This young woman was a new staff to me and I had recently trained her to write a monthly report for our organization. She was a quick learner and understood the process. I was thrilled! She called to say she finished the report and I printed it out…and it was all written in text abbreviations! This is a true story…I swear!
I read the report and started laughing! First, I showed it around the office it was so unbelievable to me…then I called her. I said “Courtney, you wrote the report in text!” “I did?”she asked? yes. I said. She replied, “I guess I was concentrating so hard on what I was doing that I forgot I was texting.” She then corrected the report!
Cece
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Comment by Barb
| December 31st, 2009
I have a phone w/the full keyboard, but I refuse to ‘talk’ in texting abbreviations! I take the extra minute to spell it out and at least sound a bit intelligent!
Comment by krn
| January 1st, 2010
Another dinosaur here. I’m not properly educated in this strange language you write of. ;)
Comment by Rob
| January 2nd, 2010
I text often and have a Blackberry curve and it gets used way to much for text and email. LOL. Since it has a full keyboard I go not shorten my texts.
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