Text speak ??? impossible to decipher

NedKelly

I put a laptop in the buyandsell a while back and i requested texts only
between 9am and 5:30 pm , i got a load of texts off interested parties
i had a few teenages text me about the item and i could not understand any of it , Im only 29 but i have no idea what half the abbriviations mean

this is what i got ...

is d laptop stil av cz i av m8 hu wanz one

tkz ill ring u 2m ni 2let ukn a m8 an nudr lad aftr 1 also mgt nd fw urdz 2

tkz 4 dat sori 4d hassle thz a lot


i eventually deciphed it but why do people text speak like that ?
is this the new thing ?? do people honesly txt speak like that ?
or am i just getting old!!!!

loz

NedKelly wrote: »

i eventually deciphed it

Took about 5 seconds - you must be stupid............

Gummy Panda

NedKelly wrote: »

i eventually deciphed it but why do people text speak like that ?

They use text speak like that because they're retarded.

NedKelly

how old are you ?

Danbo!

lulz u is jst gtn old, grndad. ma m8 cnt mk it out eevr ha lol we r lafn at hm 4eva

NedKelly

ehhhh what ?

senordingdong

NedKelly wrote: »

is this the new thing ?? !!

Eh.....

120_Minutes

people who use text speak are either lazy or too stupid to figure out predictive text.

Zapho

I can't undestand why people use it text speak. It seems to take me longer to write a text speak message than a normal message and why don't people just use predictive text?! It sooo freakin easy to use! The argument that "you can fit more into a text to save money" is pointless these days beacuse most operators have some sort of free text offer going.

Although what I find completely unacceptable is when people use text speak when sending emails/online. You have an entire keyboard infront of you. USE IT!

loz

NedKelly wrote: »

how old are you ?

IM 36 - SO OLDR THN U AND CN UNDRSTND IT - YR OBVOUSLY JST A FCKNG MPPT - AND SO IS YR MA

Zangetsu

an nudr
another

Exactly the same effort goes into both words lol, made me laugh...

Smart Bug

srsly y cnt u ndstnd dis txt spk? u gndd mofo u. my rtrdd gldfsh cld av dcphd dat n 0.83334 scnds vn f e wz wnkn w/1fn n smkn blo w/t udr.

Radharc na Sleibhte

You "eventually deciphed it". Whats deciphed mean?
Did you mean to type "deleted"?

oneweb

i kno wht u mn itz v anyn j y opjh gtu m f ty m l gg df tmn ni k jh fd de f j m bv gg hw kq md ggz gkds

It's laziness, pure and simple. There was an excuse when phones were bricks and didn't have predictive text but not any more. If it takes me even a split second longer to decipher the first words of a text I don't bother reading it. I replied to one of my mates who did it (28) askin what the hell she was on about and don't get texts from them any more. God help the English teachers!

Danbo!

loz wrote: »

IM 36 - SO OLDR THN U AND CN UNDRSTND IT - YR OBVOUSLY JST A FCKNG MPPT - AND SO IS YR MA

see ya

MikeySligo wrote: »

You "eventually deciphed it". Whats deciphed mean?
Did you mean to type "deleted"?

deciphed is txtspk for deciphered.

oztots

IMO its so that your brain gets a workout everytime you text.

And to confuse people.

Much like ROFL LOL IMO GTFO and the likes means screw all to anybody who doesnt use the internet enough. That said anybody that says lol in the realworld deserves a smack

NedKelly

loz wrote: »

IM 36 - SO OLDR THN U AND CN UNDRSTND IT - YR OBVOUSLY JST A FCKNG MPPT - AND SO IS YR MA

:rolleyes:Fool

Auvers

NedKelly wrote: »

:rolleyes:Fool

seconded :cool:

Smart Bug

oztots wrote: »

IMO its so that your brain gets a workout everytime you text.

And to confuse people.

Much like ROFL LOL IMO GTFO and the likes means screw all to anybody who doesnt use the internet enough. That said anybody that says lol in the realworld deserves a smack

And just wtf does ftw mean anyway???

NedKelly

Smart Bug wrote: »

And just wtf does ftw mean anyway???

i think it means
Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien
see www.ftw.at

oztots

Smart Bug wrote: »

And just wtf does ftw mean anyway???

For the win?

Fcuk the world?

NedKelly

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ftw

AlmightyCushion

Cut out the abuse people.

loz banned - Uncle K.

the_syco

800 letters per text. Sure, when there was only 150 letters per text, "txt spk" was needed, but jeasus f**k sake, most phones now give you 800 letters to type with!

drunkymonkey

its like a new language!! its retarded, pissses me off big time sometimes! i wonder will these people grow up still using this in their writing? and if it will develop into their speech!

i remember back when i was at school couple of years ago my french teacher was telling us about teenagers in certain parts of france who change around the letters of some words in their sentences to form new words so that their parents or police and elders couldnt understand them... basically creating a new language for themselves! pretty smart!

ZzubZzub

My friend asked me to proof read part of her essay for Uni the other day... The amount of times she had "u" was disgraceful. And with words that ended in "ing," she just cut out the g. So it was like - "investigatin, askin, developin" etc.

Absolutely shameful.

Damn text speak. I'm only 19, and I have never used it. Guilty of cutting g from ing in texts though... And my friends know not to use txtspk when they text me because they know I'll ignore it. It's pointless, and annoying. And gay. So there.

Dave!

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

But whats the difference between txt speak and internet speak. I think words like lol, lmao, wtf etc. etc. originated on the internet?

Cuddlesworth

Deleted User wrote: »

But whats the difference between txt speak and internet speak. I think words like lol, lmao, wtf etc. etc. originated on the internet?

Internet speak are mainly acronym's to shorten phrases. It was useful in gaming due to the improbability of being able to play a game while trying to type a sentence. So when something funny happened, lol was a lot more time efficient then "Man that was funny". They became more mainstream after a few years and would translate to forums, IM etc.

Text speak is clear proof that if you put in a system to allow people to become stupider they will use it. The spelling and comprehension of a lot of people who would text speak is sheer atrocious and this is being directly translated in Schools and College who are seeing large numbers of students with unreadable work.

dsmythy

People going on about the predictive text are a bit off. If you are writing a text that you know will overflow into two texts then some amount of txtspeak can be used to fit it into one. Obviously it is pure laziness when someone sends a short text in complete txtspeak/textspeak.

It would be handy if someone with a lot of time on their hands standardised textspeak. A dictionary and grammar rules to start with.

Silly me, it probably already exists!

oztots

Dave! wrote: »

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

Slilt taht syas taht the wrods need all the lteters. Txt spk fails.

smashey

I got the following text message from a teenage cousin of mine.

wil u do me a favour n tell lauren dat i think i myt be cumin dwn damara fer da wake, n dat terri's gna cum out wif me n her, cuz i let her no bout martin

I replied as follows..

English please. I don't do f*****g text speak.

She replied...

Tell Lauren that I think I might be coming down tomorrow to go to the wake. I let Terri know about Martin and she will be coming with us.

I think she got the message.

dsmythy

oztots wrote: »

Slilt taht syas taht the wrods need all the lteters. Txt spk fails.

Not necessarily. "I cn" at the start of a sentence is "i can". There's no doubting it. If someone is saying "i cane" then they will write the entire word down.

Quazzie

dsmythy wrote: »

Not necessarily. "I cn" at the start of a sentence is "i can". There's no doubting it. If someone is saying "i cane" then they will write the entire word down.

is "I cn" not "I seen"?

dsmythy

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

is "I cn" not "I seen"?

Could be. I need standardisation! The word following would generally let you know whether it is "can" or "seen" though.

oztots

I think there would be less confusion if you used the language the ways its meant to. Its easier to read.

Thats probably the main point. Why make it harder to read something when theres predictive text just waiting to help?

dsmythy

oztots wrote: »

I think there would be less confusion if you used the language the ways its meant to. Its easier to read.

Thats probably the main point. Why make it harder to read something when theres predictive text just waiting to help?

If you're writing a very short text fair enough. If you want to fit a text into one single text (ie. pay for one text) then predictive text won't help you there. I use it myself although mine would make more sense than other examples put up here with people writing "wif" instead of the handier "wit" for example.

fcukedvirgin

I totally agree with Ned on this one. I was once a member of a dating website and noticed a lot of the guys used text speak in their profiles. Well I hate it. Its bad enough on a mobile phone but in an email its a hundred times worse.

Anyway in posting my own profile I made it very clear that I wasn't going to be too enamored with anyone who wrote to me this way. Basically I wanted proper words or no dice. And yet still the emails came..most of which might as well have been in Russian for all the sense they made.

which leads me to believe that those people who use it to communicate are quite frankly stupid

Turd Ferguson

That kind of text speak is just wrong.
I abbreviate words and stuff while texting but its usually just dropping a g or something. Its still legible to humans.
The worst is that my ma uses it when she texts me. Its stupid getting a text along the lines of
"hi son,r u ok?why dnd u tlk 2 us nemore?u mssed my bday "

Sherifu

OP didn't take long to decipher but that's not the point. It's retarded.

/ed Use the ****ing keyboard.

RoundyMooney

smashey wrote: »

I got the following text message from a teenage cousin of mine.

The supreme irony being that the second, correct version is shorter than the 'tard spk riddled original.

A few centuries of linguistic evolution is easily dismissed by the young, foolish, and illiterate who think they are reinventing everything.

smashey wrote: »

I think she got the message.

One down, half a generation to go.

Reminds me of that daft Chinese emperor who ordered each of his people to kill so many houseflies a day in an attempt to eradicate the species. A noble, but ultimately vain objective.

We should apply reverse psychology and all start doing it. The pubescent armies would throw down their Nokias in disgust. Problem solved.

peanuthead

Zapho wrote: »

Although what I find completely unacceptable is when people use text speak when sending emails/online. You have an entire keyboard infront of you. USE IT!

Try correcting 32 junior cert essays in text speak.

4 hours, a jar of coffee and a lot of panadol later....

pickarooney

peanuthead wrote: »

Try correcting 32 junior cert essays in text speak.

4 hours, a jar of coffee and a lot of panadol later....

One red pen and five minutes more like. 'Fail' can be amusingly reduced to the letter F, in fecked-speak.

pickarooney

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

is "I cn" not "I seen"?

Non-spelling combined with rubbish grammar - good rule to have.

Dustaz

dsmythy wrote: »

People going on about the predictive text are a bit off. If you are writing a text that you know will overflow into two texts then some amount of txtspeak can be used to fit it into one.

Well heres a novel idea. You could use that education that your parents so helpfully paid for and work out a way to say what you want to say without using so many words.

Wait, that was too long for a text so:

Be more concise.

Capt'n Midnight

ur ma

SoupyNorman

The Girlfriends sister is one of the worst cases I've ever seen, and she has a young daughter who will be asking for help with her homework in a year or two.


This txt speak is turning a generation into illiterates.

Wreck

I never use text speak, love my predictive texting too much. I really don't see why people have a problem with it though. It takes no less effort to read, and I honestly think people who have trouble reading it must be a little slow.

towel401

the_syco wrote: »

800 letters per text. Sure, when there was only 150 letters per text, "txt spk" was needed, but jeasus f**k sake, most phones now give you 800 letters to type with!

but it costs more to send. maybe they do it out of stingeyness

Riddle101

I hate Text speak so much, i hate to be a spelling Nazi but seriously these people need to learn better grammer. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring out a dictionary in the next few years on text speak, to help the children of the future learn how to talk in text form because eventually Text speak will overtake English and become the new national Language

zonEEE

I text like that all the time, just seems to be a lot handier, never used it in a essay. People who text like that aren't retarded its the people who write on paper/computer like that are retards.