Do You Use Short Forms in SMS ?
By AKRao24
@AKRao24 (27424)
India
April 18, 2008 3:36am CST
I am 48 ! I used to hate to see shortforms being used by yongsters in SMSs ! Like U is used to indiacate You, 4 is used for 'for', 1 is used to say one, R is used for are etc. I used toget annoyed and angry thinking that these kids of today are spoiling the language of English. But now a days having got exposed to this type of language I think you really require imagination and skill , so that your message should be short, easily constructed and at the same time it should be easy for others to understand!I have developed interest in such messages and I try to construct my own messages with such shortcut languages and I feel that I am also travelling with time and not against it! What is your opininon about this ? Please post your valuable views and oblige!
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9 responses
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
19 Apr 08
Hello my friend.
Well, I seldom sms to start with (lol).
But when I do, I like to type out things in full. And because I use predictive text, the words will come out (thus making for faster "typing") only if I am aiming for the legitimate words.
I only convert some of them to short forms when I have too many characters.
Imagine if I am only allowed 160 characters for a message, it doesn't make sense for me to pay for 2 if I am just a few characters extra. 
@littleone3 (2063)
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18 Apr 08
I use both when i am texting my friends or my children i use the shortforms. But when i text my partner i use full words as he finds the shortforms hard to understand. Because he is dyslexia and the words move about on him. So he much prefers longhand.
@mark17779 (667)
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18 Apr 08
I use either. It all depends on the length of the text. If it's a short message I will use proper punctuation and grammer, a long message then I will use shortened text to fit it in to one page.
@graceandowen (1637)
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18 Apr 08
I too use short abbreviations etc when sending messages, the first reason for this was to try and fit a whole message into one text so it doesnt cost as much lol.
I have used it ever since and i must admit it has become second nature, so much so that i find myself writing in the form at times which i dont like at all, i use abbreviations a lot for work too as we have to and it just becomes part of my life, i must admit i do not like them too much but needs must and all that lol.
