Weronika wrote:
<What is texting?>
Texting is done by some adults, but mainly between teenagers and early
twenties to and from friends they've only seen five minutes ago, and seems
to me to be an attempt to give themselves RSI (repetitive strain injury).
It's done on a mobile phone (cellphone). Messages are written in a form of
shorthand using the letters on the number keys and sent as a text message
rather than speaking to someone. Some of the easy shorthand "words" are:
C = see
U = you
L8 = later
R = are
4 = for
B4 = before
2 = to
but them you get into things like
soz = sorry
URT1 = you are the one
ATM = at the moment
G9 = genius
h2cus = hope to see you soon
Not ones I know, but if you want to see more go to:
http://esl.about.com/b/a/035020.htm
which has a short paragraph on texting, but links below it to text language
listed alphabetically.
They cradle the phone on the fingers of both hands (it seems with some that
the phone is permanently glued to their fingers) and use both thumbs to
enter the message and send it.
Some of these youngsters will text to and receive replies from their friends
for most of the day. Henced the RSI. I don't know how they can afford it
because most service providers charge to both send and receive texts. When I
first got my last phone, I wasted GBP3.00 pressing buttons trying to stop
the junk texts and voice mails as soon as I'd registered it. So I got my
service provider to switch off texts and voice mails from their end. Now
it's just a phone as it was intended to be.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:
unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
