kwim, for goodness use English!

Wow--I just learned a new text message lingo..LOL. IMO (In my opinion) I think people should leave textese words to texting on cell phones and write proper words in a discussion forum like this. It makes one wonder if the "younger" generation writes book reports or term papers in textese language--kwim? Mmmmm if kwim means Know what I mean does that mean Idkwum equals I don't know what you mean?

I have to think long and hard to understand some of these short hand terms, and I do not always understand them even then. I feel like they are rude for use outside of text messages. As it pertains to MyLot, people who use the text shortcuts are basically short changing themself, as we get paid for what we do, so doing less is less pay.

I know just what you mean my friend. I'm glad you told me what it was because I could not have figured it out. There are so many of these shortenings of words and phrases that I am usually at a loss. I think it's a sign of the times my dear and we are getting passed it.

I didn't kwym (know what you meant). I know a lot of these online acronyms, but not that one so much. Actually, the only ones I use pretty regularly are lol (laughing out loud) and idk (I don't know)... Last time I had to ask was when I saw pmpl (peed my pants laughing).

I do sooooooooooo understand ! Why not just write it out? Or are you and I too old LOL I don't feel stupid at all. I feel totally competent LOL You are too LOL

Hi Hatley You are absolutely right; this & such words were getting more & more confusing till I read your expansion!!Thanks I do not know why today's youngsters need to change words altogether or give a different meaning or even shorten it. There are lots of words which in the 'real' English means altogether different from what is used now - if you look around the new meaning of 'cool' used for every second expression is used very broadly & generally; the word 'guy' though refers to males is now used for every one in a group even females; and what about the wrong word 'anyways' in place of the right 'anyway'!!?? There are many many more words and expressions, shortcuts etc which I cannot decipher so I either get my answers while watching new films/programmes on TV or I ask my daughter the meaning which she has ready!!! I think people in our age will soon be made top look stupid and ignorant by the next generation as you rightly say!!!

I find them annoying. I will do a few - WTG for "way to go" AND, if I'm actually using the text function on my phone, I will SOMETIMES use "2", "U", "&", "R", but I'm not good at it...

Hi Hatley! Boy! Do I ever know what you mean!! My brother emailed me "fyi" a few years back and I was lost to what it meant. I didn't ask him for a few days hoping I could figure it out and I just couldn't so I asked. Then "btw" came to be and again, couldn't figure it out either and had to ask. My dad always says, no question is stupid unless you know the answer. He's right, you know?

Hi Hatley, I do tend to shorten words in a text but have never heard of kwim, that is a stupid phrase if it was sent to me I would be forever wondering what it meant...texts only have a certain amount of characters you can put in them except for the really modern ones, but 'kwim'? Uh my impression of the person that sent it to me is either they spelt it wrong or didn't know how to spell the word they meant-like you write things in English or at least that you can understand what the person means sending the text to the reciever...LoLo

Im pretty used to texting. Sometimes when im writting here i almost forget and start using text lingo. I use the same text lingo for chatting too. Real english here. I get confused sometimes when people are texting and they incert one letter for a word. So i actually have to take longer to figure out what the one letter means. Sometimes i dont figure it out but i get the idea from the rest of the sentence.

hahaha kwim? it's the first time I heard this.. know what I mean? well, some people are making their own language specially when they are always texting. I just wonder why they are not following the English rules. For their good reasons maybe they want to minimize the space or they want to be original in creating acronyms. It is funny but interesting.

?? ME!! I don't remember ever seeing that before. I don't really care. If they want us to understand them they will write their offerings on here in a way that we can understand. OR, I just delete and move on. And I don't sweat the small stuff. Oh, and if you happen to find out what the 'kwim' means it would be nice if you passed it on.

Hiya Hatley, Have come across a few of those and I end up finding out what they mean too. I can translate my Son´s text messages quite well now. Some do escape me as they are forever inventing something different. Have just found a place it´s called internetslang all one word and the dot and the com. You will find most of those abbreviations there I think. I have also bookmarked it too to take the guesswork out of it as I am trying to learn all those cool text abbreviations they are making up all the time.

The Philippines is considered the texting capital of the world, i don't know if that's true but i think the texting phenomenon is catching up with you . Here our youngsters even come up with their own SMS language which is even harder to decipher. One of the reasons why i dislike sending messages is becuase of the replies with all those weird sounding replie that make my head ache just to decipher what it means.

As soon as I saw "kwim" in your title of the post, I thought, is she posting about a person who is Asian? I really don't like text speak when someone is writing something on the internet. U or Thnx, stuff like that is something you'll never see from me. I mean if other people do it, so be it. But I just don't think it looks good.

TXTSPK or "Textspeak" developed to make use of the limited space allocated for a cellphone SMS. (I'm not sure which came first,though,the Internet chat acronyms or the SMS messaging terms-the two have blended by now..) I agree that there's no need for the things on a forum like Mylot,though,where creativity and self expression is what it's about..if you have the space to write in full,why not use it?!

When I first saw this word I thought maybe someone was trying to type the word swim, but the "k" is no where near the "s". So I have no idea..If it is a different language, that is against mylots guidelines.

i don't know a lot of those acronyms.^_^ i've just found out about LOL, ROFL, BTW, OMG. hahahah... i'm stupid what the heck. i spell every word out. and i don't really chat. plus, i hate text messaging on the internet. even when i'm using a phone to surf i spell everything out.

Kwim? No, I do not know what you mean! LOL I had never heard that one until now! I think that even myself at 37 years old am too old for most of these abbreviations. It took me years to work out what LOL and LMAO were! Then I discovered ROFL and ROFLMAO!

I can understand where these were helpful in the original generation of sending text messages (there was a time that you were charged per character that you sent and per message that you received). However, this isn't the case anymore, so I really don't know why they are still used the way that they are. This really reminded me of a commercial for a cellular phone where they got the bill and it had a huge amount of charges for text messages. They were trying to figure out who "grandma" had been texting and her response was IDK MY BFF Rose. . . Translated for those non-texters, it means I don't know, my best friend forever Rose.