Da txt speak thrd
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Sh4rkyBloke
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No. 
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
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- West Somerset
Fnaar
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I cant txt spk 2 save my lf, xcept 4 title of songs by prince like i wd die 4 u
Mad Doug Biker
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1 4 wn Im on Room 101 methnks
Seriously, I utterly despise text speak with a passion.
Seriously, I utterly despise text speak with a passion.
pepecat
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I h8 it!!!
Thrs no point....
Ok, I give up - i don't actually know how to shorten words. It's not as if you pay for texts by the letter anyway; a text costs the same to send whether you use all the characters or half of them. So you might as well use all the space and make sense!
My mother (who is 66) is in the habit of using txt spk - 'cu soon' and 'we're going 2' etc...... I told her she's paying the same whether she uses all the space or none of it.... hopefully that'll get her out of the habit! It drives me nuts!!!
Thrs no point....
Ok, I give up - i don't actually know how to shorten words. It's not as if you pay for texts by the letter anyway; a text costs the same to send whether you use all the characters or half of them. So you might as well use all the space and make sense!
My mother (who is 66) is in the habit of using txt spk - 'cu soon' and 'we're going 2' etc...... I told her she's paying the same whether she uses all the space or none of it.... hopefully that'll get her out of the habit! It drives me nuts!!!
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
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- West Somerset
The lads at my mother's work taught her how to use her mobile when she first got it and also taught her text speak, only she never quite got the hang of it and makes it up as she goes along. When she used to write me, I could never decipher her handwriting. Now I can't read her texts. 
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
wt rly pss me of iz wn ppl snd msgs in txt spk n theyv takn th time 2 tel thr prdctv txt 2 use txt spk coz it actly tks longr tht way!
mightyquin
Active Member
I only use txt spk if Im txtin n sum emails 2 m8s.
One of the funniest things I heard was one morning on Radio 4, some poet had written a book of poetry in txt spk, and they had them in to talk about it. The the presenter asked him to read a poem out. He interrupted him and said "but you're just reading the poem out how it would normally sound, what's the point of that!?!"
One of the funniest things I heard was one morning on Radio 4, some poet had written a book of poetry in txt spk, and they had them in to talk about it. The the presenter asked him to read a poem out. He interrupted him and said "but you're just reading the poem out how it would normally sound, what's the point of that!?!"
Amheirchion
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fk of 
Amheirchion
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- Northampton
In reel noos, txt spk did used to have a real purpose, back in the days before phones could send multiple 'pages' of texts, you were limited to (I believe) 160 characters. So text speak evolved to be able to send longer messages in a shorter space. When phones developed, and gained the ability to split multiple messages up, sadly, text speak didn't die. Also remember, that back then you were charged per text, so sending 160 characters might cost you 20p (or whatever it was back then), if your message was longer it would cost you double, so shortening the words did actually save you money,
