from now on... / myLot

Philippines

March 11, 2013 12:14am CST

I won't use text messaging! this morning,i received a text message from my husband, he said if i could make a proposal for college education for two kids for SIR DONG. ( I am a licensed financial adviser for a Life insurance company here, Philam) Anyways, i replied a short message as i was busy with work.. i replied " Sir dong who?" - That message means ( if he is fast on getting that message) who is he, name, full name for one... and all other details! And he didn't reply. Then lunch time came, i slept for awhile as i am still feeling sick.. then woke up and called my husband and when he answered he was MAD. He right then told me, is that how i deal with clients, is that how i ask information? is that how i am when working? i was like what the hell are you talking about? it was you i was texting and not a client! he then told me what was with my text message! Probably, i was speechless by his reaction thats why i was not able to fully explain my side, i end up saying sorry and that was not how that message intends to be! I so wish i could have told him was "pick up" is slow. But well i prefer to keep my mouth shut right now and just move on. I am tired.

I therefore conclude that: a. when texting - still use complete sentence! b. never assume the person you are texting will fully comprehend what you have written c. there are some who are slow

d. it is not the best communication method. ugh!

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16 responses

mtrguanlao

@mtrguanlao (5522)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

Haha, that's the reason why I need to txt my hubby in full sentence,even if the words are shortened or wrong spelling, 'cause hubby sometimes misunderstood what I've txtd him. You know what my friend, your hubby is lucky to have you,lol!

I mean if that happened to me, I really wont say sorry,honestly! Well,I guess I'm like that or I'm just used to hubby saying sorry to me instead of me, saying sorry to him. I don't know, but you see, I have this habit of showing him that I am mad too when I feel that he's mad, just to melt his anger. Hubby is like when he feels I'm mad, he will calm down so the "fight' wont go far. So you see, your hubby is lucky to have you as his wife!

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jazel_juan

@jazel_juan (15746)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

Well sis, i am never really one who wants to nurse those sentiments and anger, i want to take it all out or if not ill forgive and forget. I am that kind of person even tho i was hurt, i would still say sorry.

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topffer

@topffer (42156)

• France

11 Mar 13

@mtr: I don't find anything wrong in jazel's text, but like your husband I don't like to receive texts full of abbreviated words : they can be difficult to understand and irritating.

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mtrguanlao

@mtrguanlao (5522)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

Hi topffer! Glad to see you again, I missed your avatar,hehe! So I guess men don't like to read txts that are shortened,hehe!

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jonastabuena

@jonastabuena (2307)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

I been to that kind of situation, we got mis-understanding with my friend before and until now we not able to patch up what had happened before, the cause is mis-communication with the txt message that are not using the full word, i don't understand why they short cut the full word? i my self i see to it that when i txt, i use the full word because i'm having difficulty in interpreting the short cut words.

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jazel_juan

@jazel_juan (15746)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

That is sad to hear you were not able to patch things up just because of that..

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frontvisions101

@frontvisions101 (16043)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

I sometimes have a hard time understanding text messages as well. That's why I make sure to read my message twice before sending it. Plus, I make sure that if I have to shorten words, that they are understandable in concept with the sentence.

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jazel_juan

@jazel_juan (15746)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

lol mine was very much easy to understand. oh well!

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frontvisions101

@frontvisions101 (16043)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

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frontvisions101

@frontvisions101 (16043)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

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teotimoponcerosacena

@teotimoponcerosacena (1552)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

No you are just doing good it just happened your husband is from other planet family of individual self proclaim people. Text is for emergency message the receiving party must be intelligent enough to interpret the message.

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jazel_juan

@jazel_juan (15746)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

lol how i wish i could show him this message hahahaha but definitely it will cause war, oh well.. i will let this pass for now.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (160642)

• United States

11 Mar 13

I do not text at all, there are too many ways to mess up or be misunderstood. Of course it could just be that I am behind the times.

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HULYO

@julyteen (13252)

• Davao, Philippines

11 Mar 13

That's the problem of text messaging. I always received messages that I fully understand due to some words that is not fully explain. Most of the time I write a text in a full context that even a child can understand to avoid misunderstanding and no confusion.

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Jane

@jaiho2009 (39141)

• Philippines

12 Mar 13

Uh uh... hehehe Oh well, I agree that people at least know how to understand short messages (but it's not) Well, at least you did the right (keeping in silent- hehehe) Have a great day

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LetranKnight25

@LetranKnight25 (33121)

• Philippines

12 Mar 13

Hello Jazel_juan, That's sad must have been a bad impression there with a client, i think it's better to text it with complete words when ever you are having a text conversation with a client. you could do shortcuts with a couple of people but not with the person who wants to have clear sentence of answer coming from you. besides, if it gives a bad impression, they may tell others and that will not be good.

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frontvisions101

@frontvisions101 (16043)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

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stanley777

@stanley777 (9402)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

Yeah, text messaging sometimes do creates misunderstanding especially if the recipient of the text is slow in comprehending what we have sent them. Most of the time we used short messages or we even invent words we hope the receiver understands, so that the words could fit for one message only, a sort of cost saving. I experienced it too when I sms my wife about something but she had not perceive what my text meant. What happened? she didn't text me for two days even if I have text her many times. To cut short, I called her to explain my side about the text, now it's back to normal.

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jazel_juan

@jazel_juan (15746)

• Philippines

11 Mar 13

Hahaha that must have been really perceived differently on her part as she didn't talk to you for days!

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doroffee

@doroffee (4222)

• Hungary

11 Mar 13

I'm not too huge on textring, because some people abbreviate stuff so much that I sometimes can't understand the sentence...

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Raine38

@Raine38 (12250)

• United States

11 Mar 13

Lol, I am sorry but I find this story funny. But please don;t tell your husband I said that!

I also have the same issue with my husband when we text message each other. That is why if a call cannot be made to straight things out, I type everything, complete with proper punctuation marks and to heck with sore fingers, lol!

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Patsie Hatley

@Hatley (163776)

• Garden Grove, California

18 Mar 13

hi jazel__juan that reminds me of a discussion response I read where the person just said KWIM. I had to ask her just what KWIM meant as I do not have a cell phone and do not know text expressions. I found out that it means "know what I mean?"Okay I got that but I too would not know what your husband meant by Sir Dong and would need that explained to me in words I understood too. I do think we go too far with these expressions and why not just use good old American English

instead.

use good old amerkican english instead

asliah

@asliah (11137)

• Philippines

19 Apr 13

now a days,when we do texting most of us make the words shorts or shortcuts so that we can say all what we wanted in just one send of message only,but there are some people who is not aware to those shortcut messages and they can not get it.

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