Da txt speak thrd

[fossyant]

No !

 

[fossyant]

PS my 70'odd year old MIL has her own version of txt speak. Takes us hours to decipher it - we end up phoning !

 

[XmisterIS]

Gah! New-fangled telephony speaking devices indeed! When I was a lad, it was all cannons and semaphore.

 

[andylaw79]

Can't stand it either, couple of my friends use it all the time and the text response back is usually just "what do you want?" which results in a proper conversation or a reply text composed in English, save for the odd spelling mistake.

 

[asterix]

Can't stand it either, couple of my friends use it all the time and the text response back is usually just "what do you want?" which results in a proper conversation or a reply text composed in English, save for the odd spelling mistake.

sry, DdU mean:

cnt st& it itha, cpl of my F? uz it ll d tym n d txt response bac S usu jst "what DY wnt?" wich rslts ina propr QSO or a QSL txt composd n en, save 4t odd sp mstke.

 

[Shaun]

sry, DdU mean:

cnt st& it itha, cpl of my F? uz it ll d tym n d txt response bac S usu jst "what DY wnt?" wich rslts ina propr QSO or a QSL txt composd n en, save 4t odd sp mstke.

That's just had my eyes rolling around in my head ...

 

[Shaun]

Actually, now I've re-read my own thread title a few times, I can't help but see it as: The text speak turd !!!

 

[coffeejo]

The text speak turd !!!

Sums it up nicely

 

[phil_hg_uk]

The text speak turd !!!

You mean thats not what it says

 

[summerdays]

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,

No I don't use txt speak.... for a start it would take me longer to type it certainly takes longer to read. I only shorten occasional words if I'm getting to the end of my 160 characters or what ever it is that I'm allowed (yes I still have an old style phone and on PAYG).

Some times I really don't get it ... my daughter used to answer messages with "kk" cos she couldn't be bothered to type OK??!!??

 

[HLaB]

There's a place 4 txt spk, on a fone, but it shouldn't be in typed posts :-)

 

[mightyquin]

I think it was a combination of limited character spaces, cost and hassle of typing full words on phones before predictive text, that gave rise to txt spk. It's also useful for ppl who cnt spel proply.

Twttr spk now?

 

[XmisterIS]

I have discovered the ultimate text speak (or indeed twitter speak), that permits you to send any length of message in a single character.

How does it work?

By iteration! Simples.

I shall explain.

Let's say the message I want to send is, "Good afternoon, my good friend, would you care to accompany me to the public house where we shall drink cheap cider until we pick a fight with a girl, lose, collapse and urinate into our own underwear?"

The iterations go as follows:

Aright m8, fancy th pub 4 a bevvy n get smashd?

Then we text-speak the text-speak:

atm8, fcytpb 4abvngtsmd?

Then we text-speak the text-speak after having been text-speaked:

af4?

Finally, we text-speak the whole lot:

a?

Simples, no?

 

[funnymummy]

I do like to reply in full when I get a text with text speak, especially from son no #1. I am sure it winds him up no end.

#1 sends me a text, I simply reply "Translate"
My friends tell me i'm the only person they know that uses punctuation ,.' :; in texts too

 

[tyred]

If Ronnie Barker was still around, I'm sure he could write some great sketches involving text speak.