Texting
Have you ever received a text message from one of your hip and trendy friends and it is filled with so many text abbreviations that you have no idea what they are saying?
WYSIWYG SWALK translates to What You See Is What You Get - Sealed With A Loving Kiss
I can understand when a letter is substituted for the word it sounds like. For example B for be, C for see, R for are, U for you, and Y for why and so on. The number substitution is also acceptable 8 for ate, 4 for for and 2 for to.
We all know ROTFL is Rolling on floor laughing, but they have gone too far with the variations on this one.
ROFLCOPTER Rolling on floor laughing and spinning around
ROFLMAO Rolling on the floor, laughing my *butt* off
ROTFLUTS Rolling on the floor laughing unable to speak
The ones that really get me are the way emotions are displayed in text chat. It takes the same amount of characters to write sad as it does to symbolize it.
Happy/Smiley - :-)
Angry - :-||
Very happy - :-))
Confused - %-)
Tongue tied - :-&
Sad - :-(
Saintly - O:-)
Laughing - :-D
Crying - :'-(
Surprised/shocked - :-O
Screaming - :-@
Kiss - :-*
Pig - :@)
Clown - *:-)
Wink - ;-)
Do we really need to know these?