Dnt u h8 ppl tht tlk lyk ths?

I quite often have no idea what in the world they are talking about. I do however use a few of the more well known text talk words.

I really detest text talk! even in a text message I hate it. What gets me though is text talk is supposed to cut down the letters you use so why do so many people spell things wrong but using the same or more letters but it is ok because its text talk for example bhoi-boy and the best one I ever saw was jografee-geography I mean lets at least keep some sense of being able to spell even if you must remove half the letters. My mum uses text talk better than me I often have to ring her to ask what on earth she was trying to tell me. I dont see the need for text talk on a public forum its kind of lazy in my opinion its like my lot are only allowing you so many letters per post!

pirate_arg you are right,i hate people who type messages to me that way...feeling bad on vowels.i just dont know why they are making shortcuts out of consonants.i feel upset to people who type messages that way to me and my kids knew it.even telling their friends to type the right words to me otherwise i would reprimand my kids for having lazy friends,dont know how to use their learnings.what school have they learned about that kind of shortcuts?OMG,,,whew!!!

i agree, i think it is silly. the whole idea of a mess on the mobile is to get a message across so i think it should just be spelled out . i dont understand these abbreviations myself and do find it a bit childesh.

That's one of my pet peeves especially on a forum where you don't need to abbreviate every word you said unlike in text on mobile phones where you are limited. For sms, I hate people who abbreviate to something barely understandable.

I can see where talking like that has its place, such as when you have a conversation using cell phone text messages it can be easier to type "c u l8r" then to write out "See you later", but I detest having to see that stuff outside of brief cell phone notes. In chat rooms I'll use abbreviations such as AFK or BRB, but that is only because when I have to leave the computer I am usually in a huge hurry and don't have the time to write out "Be right back" or "Away from the keyboard", I could not bear to have to type or read something like l33t on a regular basis for no reason other than just to write funky.

It is annoying - but when you pay for texting I can see why people abbreviate. I don't text much anyway - so I usually spell things out if I can, but when your words are 8+ letters, I leave vowels out occasionally.

I am part of the "Save the Vowels" movement ROFLMFAO I too am part of the Save the Vowels movement and I hope as time goes on more people will join in and show support LOL text talk drives me nuts...I'll shorten some words like ppl for example but...actually thats the only word i can think of LOL..Mind you I dont own a cell phone or anything like that so I never got into it to begin with ya know...

I absolutely detest text speak, it drives me to distraction when people send me a text like that, or an email come to that. It has happened a few times and on each occasion I have deleted them until the person either phones or actually uses proper words

LOL!!! i mean seriously, as a mother of a teenager, its not hard to get into this lingo and oh no! nows its rubbing off on me!! ttyl!! :-)

you're right pirate_arg. I hate TEXT talk. first bec I can't understand them well. I text with the dictionary on, because I might get used to bad spelling and grammar and it's not good. I only do text talking when i've reached the limit. But i only use "u" instead of you. "bec" instead of because. For Filipinos like us, text talking is widely used even in forums and even when we talk personally, it's really annoying. Bad grammar, bad spelling, poor english, what's next? :-(

hahaha... I know wut u tlkn bout... ttiz rly ANNOYING!! Some people just don't know where to draw the line!! :)

You are forgetting about "txt-talk's" best friend, Bad Grammar, together these tyrants are destroying my internet. In some cases horrible grammar can make a sentence even harder to decipher than "txt-talk."

I hate text talk. With more known abbreviations it is fine like IM LOL BRB BFF. I use instant messenger all the time and i don't know really anyone who uses text talk. I always come to find people though who do and I tell them to either spell correctly or don't talk to me at all. I think it would be harder to find and remember a "new" way of spelling something then to just type it out.

i completely agree dear

i personally agree with ya there Pirate_Arg. This is a Forum, Not a freaking chatroom! LOL

So very true. I only abbreviate some words and it's very rare too. I do hate how people type like that though. I have a hard time reading peoples emails and even on messanger when they type that way. I completely agree with you people should learn to type the words the way they are supposed to be spelt.

some people like to abbreviate the woulds but i dont