21St Century Language of Texting: 1St Edition

By Sophie Jane

21 CLOT
Found some unusual text on your phone? What the…….!! It’s all about the language. Oh No you say, I don’t want to learn a new language, well you don’t have to. Inside here are 2 books – acronyms sorted in alphabetical order, so if you receive a text that says….404 9:), you can look up easily or if you want to send in code you can go part 2, look up a phrase or sentence and send something like….. Be back in a minute…bbiam. Got the Idea. Greeat!!
Now let’s have some fun!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jan 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669885863

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Rev. date: 01/26/2022

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Contents

Letter from The Author

Section 1 Sorted by Text

Characters

Alphanumeric

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Section 2 Sorted by Meaning

Alphanumeric

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Reference Sites

My Why and Life in a Snapshot

Book Blurb

WARNING

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE USED

This book is NOT to be read if you take offence

to any English word pertaining to gender, race,

sexuality, regions, belief, or anything in general.

Letter from The Author

Why write this book, ‘cic’ (coz I can). My inspiration came from tutoring. My clients were asking, ‘What is texting, SMS? Young people these days cannot spell.’ I just smiled and said it is a new language of the twenty-first century.

So as I do, the brain kicked into overdrive, and I developed a short course, ‘Learn to Text’. While researching and writing this course, my thoughts turned to how I can make this fun. So dicussions with family and friends inspired me to put together a list of commonly used acronyms, and the task was to create a sentence only using text speak (oh, and maybe an if, but, or and). This resulted in some fabulous and hilarious conversations.

Just for fun, try it and see what you can come up with! I would love to hear/see your texting talk sentences.

But for now, I would like you to come on a journey with me to understand a little more about TEXTING. I promise this will be brief.

Oh, if you already didn’t know, the word OK we use frequently comes from the phrase oll korrect. Yes, it is spelt wrong. It is a humorous alteration of all correct.

So I say to the English and grammer police, LET IT GO!

Continuing on, so what is an acronym?

The word acronym typically applies when the resulting initialism can be read as a word, for example, CRAP—cheap redundant assorted products, or FOMO—fear of missing out.

Get the idea!

Yes, not all the texting shorts are acronyms. They can be called initialisms, meaning that the abbreviation is a result of the first letters of each word or a drop of the vowels. For example, LMAO means laugh my ass off! or HPPIO means highest paid person in office.

So when you are attempting to say ICWAM, drop the school-taught way of pronuncing your vowels and phonetic letter and just Aaaa, Bbbbb, Cee.

I definitely gave up speaking English when I came across the longest acronym, which by the way is in The Guiness Book of Records.

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOM

ONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT

WOW, who would have thought? This comes from Russia and is fifty-six letters long.

It is from the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology and means

The Laboratory for Shuttering, Reinforcement, Concrete and Ferroconcrete Operations for Composite-monolithic and Monolithic Constructions of the Department of Technology of Building Assembly Operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for Building Mechanization and Technical Aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR.

Why would you have one this long? Coz you can. This is the world we live in—the intertwining of the English or any language and the digital technology we integrate with.

Now that you are focused on the longest acronym, let that sink in.

CAN I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE. Let’s move on and have a look at WHY this happened.

For those of us who remember back to the 1990s, the old Nokia—whatever they were—the only functions we had were phone calls, the ability to abbreviate, whose number was whose, and SMS meaning short message service. This was restricted to number keypad only (NO, there were no letters), and you had to be on the same network, for example, Vodafone to Vodafone. The maximum characters you could send were 160. OMG, how did we communicate!

By the 2000s, technology have markedly improved, and WOW, we could now start sending letters as well with the introduction of the alphanumeric keypad. How exciting!

Now don’t get me wrong. I love to use the correct pronunciation and speaking, but you have to admit, this can be fun.

During the transition from picking up the phone and speaking to what we now call texting, a lot of what you find in this book was created to save time, energy, and avoid carpal tunnel. The only problem is that there are so many, and if you don’t know what they are, like any language, you have no idea what the other person is saying.

And don’t forget about textual intercourse, sexting, and MMS (multimedia, sending pictures and text).

So it’s time to get to it.

When using this book, as stated on the cover in BIG RED WRITING, if you have any issues with bad language, and social or political views, THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR YOU.

Use this book as your reference. It is sorted in two ways—ALPHABETICALLY—so yes, you need to know your ABCs . . . lol.

1. first half by texting acronym

2. second half by meaning

For the parents and grandparents, you can now decipher (or as close to) what your kids and grandkids are gossiping about (sorry, kids). Although, there are a lot of emojis these days, but that’s for another time.

Remember, texting is meant to be SHORT, not essays. If you have something to say in length or depth, pick up the phone and speak using your natural voice, as that is what it is for. This is 2021, and we have video chat, you know.

May your texting journey be a fun as mine was, and may you have a gg (good giggle).

Wishing everyone fun texting,

Sophia Jane

PS: SMS and texting means = short message service using text (alphanumeric).

MMS means picture(s) and text.

Section 1

Sorted by Text

If you send a text message all in capitals is implies that you are shouting or screaming at the other person.

The most important character to use when texting is the asterix *. This is used as follows:

to change the wording, an auto corrected word or spelling mistake of a previously sent text message

for example - how was your dick?

* day

used to suggest a physical action or reaction. NOT to be used with acronyms for example - *laugh out loud* | *PUNCH* | *KICK* | *POW*