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What language is this text?

SAY AH! LOL!

Have you ever wondered what the sender is trying to say and you can’t find heads or tails with the text message?

One way to check is to visit a website called URBAN DICTIONARY that has a ton of these abbreviations and ideas about the language of a particular text message. Another way is to text the sender and ask him to explain some terms of the message.

The only thing I noticed about texting is that 99% of the time the text abbreviation is in some form of English translation. LOL or “Laugh out Loud” is a popular three-letter acronym that is used in all kinds of languages, making it one of the most popular text abbreviations. New abbreviations appear every day that could cause confusion until they become popular.

For example, “SMH”, which means “shake your head.” In fact, this abbreviation was asked about in Google searches more than 12,000 times a month. Many people have been using SMH, but many people don’t know what it means. So you can easily see that the language is not, and never will be, perfect. The popularity of certain text acronyms and how quickly they acquire their own definition is truly an astonishing study. I can do an article on that in the future.

But for now, we know that when a text message arrives, many times the reader does not understand the text itself. Obviously not all the time, but I had to ask a friend what does that mean? What language is that? Its English? Is that an acronym? Then I “google it” and find out that it is a text language that people are using.

Also, some text slang becomes less popular over time. Take the three letter BFF, for example. “Best Friend Forever” was very popular a few years ago, I think it has since disappeared and could be extinct in the future. Imagine that one day we will test the lifespan of certain popular text acronyms and how fast they grow to how quickly they die out.

Back to the Urban Dictionary for a second. I’m not sure if that website began by determining what a certain text language means, but many have turned it into a dictionary, more or less, for cell phone texting lingo. Naturally, you will find other words on the website, some nice, some quite dirty, but these are words that people basically make up. I even had a word that I used allot, which is not a normal English word, and I put it in an urban dictionary, gave the definition and used it in a sentence, and it passed. If you’re wondering, that word was “cozed.” search it! LOL

So, as texting becomes more and more popular, more and more text languages ​​will be born. The mind of a person who can decipher three letters and turn them into the correct phrase will work fine, those who do not have a mind for that will have more difficulties, but like any language, some learn a second and third language faster than others.

Here are some sample 2, 3 and 4 letter texting phrases I just made up, see if you can guess what they mean:

TYYT

CYT

DRIP

GF

SSDD

These are probably good examples of something you might see when you ask a friend, “what does that mean?”

Let me give you the answers, at least this is what was on my mind when I made them up:

TYYT = Talk to you tomorrow

CYT = See you tonight (C is short for see)

GOTE = Go out to eat

GF = Gone fishing

SSDD = Same on a different day

There you have it, the answers to my made-up text lingo. Create your own and send it to your friends. You could possibly make the next big text word!

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