Son K was telling me about this new (to me) texting language that is evolving rapidly among the younger people. I thought I would share some of these with you. Let's hope proper English is not dying out! I understand that with texting you need to be faster and quicker since you are typing everything out in order to communicate, saying more with less maybe.
wym -what do you mean
wyd -what are you doing
hmu -hit me up meaning 'text me something!'
dhmu-don't hit me up 'I don't want to text'
frr - 'for real or are you serious or no kidding'
deadass - seriously
oof - ooh fun
ily -I love You
ilysm - I love you so much
bsf - boy best friend
bae- boyfriend or girlfriend
wym -what do you mean
wyd -what are you doing
hmu -hit me up meaning 'text me something!'
dhmu-don't hit me up 'I don't want to text'
frr - 'for real or are you serious or no kidding'
deadass - seriously
oof - ooh fun
ily -I love You
ilysm - I love you so much
bsf - boy best friend
bae- boyfriend or girlfriend
22 comments:
Imagine, back in the classrooms when the teachers taught proper hand writing, where every letter had to be on the page just so. What would those teachers think of today's lazy texting.
Oh gosh! I don't know any of those. I know I've seen my son-in-law use ty (thank you) and yw (you're welcome).
Yes, a lot of the younger people use these strange abbreviations. I do write texts, but prefer a language I know! Hugs, Valerie
thank you for your useful sharing of Texting language
have a great morning
I knew a few of those.
I'm so old-fashioned I type everything out...and even use proper punctuation! When I use the phone's auto complete I don't think it takes that much longer.
it's fun reading this list, though I really can't bring myself to use them, I guess I'm old fashion, I like words to be words
have a lovely day.
My head's spinning from reading that... 😅
Whenever someone texts me like this; I reply "deli" meaning I've deleted your text and ignored it.
God bless.
I don't text at all, so this is new to me.
I have to tell you, I will NEVER use text language. My worst offence is "lol" I think. Even when I text, I use complete sentences and proper punctuation!
glad you posted this - i can use this knowledge.
You are forgott about BFF- Best friend forever :D
Hi Christine oh i didnt know these short cuts,handy to know,thankyou xx
I must be old. I use complete sentences and proper punctuation when I text! The only one I recognized from the list is 'bae'. The rest are alien to me :)
it comes from when you only had a certain character limit for texting and its quicker :) been around for years its just getting more involved
Reminds me of shorthand sort of.
Coffee is on
I can hardly understand some text from my younger friends
Interesting observation
i am from the time when proper language has importance above any other subject in school
i feel sad for such abrupt change but invention is daughter of necessity so what can we do
I too hope proper English is not dying out!
Interesting comment from Dora, I suppose it is a form of shorthand … sort of !
I'm so old fashioned, I still enjoy letter writing and I fear that in the future it will die out completely.
All the best Jan
Thank God for my 21 yr-old nephew. He keeps me up to date on texting language. This way, I know what people are saying.
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