Texting Tips
I later discovered one of my younger colleagues was taking advantage of texting short hand. She later provided me this list of texting symbols with their English translation.
- # - number
- @ - at
- & - and
- ? - what?
- 1 - one (Numbers are not usually spelled out.)
- 2 - two, to, too (Tomorrow becomes 2moro.)
- 3 - three, tree (The name Trina becomes 3na.)
- 4 - four, for (Forget becomes 4get.)
- 8 - eight; ate (Mate becomes m8.)
- a - preferred over per
- attn - attention
- b - be, bee (Wana b my txtm8?)
- b4 - before
- bc - busy
- bin - not a good substitute for been (Bin means container.)
- bkit - bakit?
- btw - by the way
- btwn - between
- bye - good bye
- c - see; sea (Sino ay nagiging cno?)
- coz - because
- cul8r - See you later.
- d - the; hindi
- d8 - date
- dat - that
- dem - them
- dey - they
- dis - this, these
- dnt - do not
- dsnt - does not
- every - evry
- f - if
- fil - feel
- frens - friends
- frm - from
- fyi - for your information
- g - gee
- gud - good (Good morning becomes gud am.)
- hi - hi, high
- i - eye
- l8 - late
- laf - laugh
- k - okay
- luv - love
- m - I am, am (Embrace becomes mbrace)
- mssg - message
- n - and, in
- need - nid
- nite - night, knight
- nt - not
- nxt - next
- ol - all
- pis - fish, peace (Office becomes opis.)
- pls - please
- q - queue, cue
- r - are (Hu r u?)
- rsvp - respond upon receiving
- s - is
- san - saan?
- smyl - smile
- t - tee, tea
- til - until
- tlg - talaga?
- tnx - thanks
- text - txt
- thru - through
- tru - true
- ty - thank you
- u - you
- ur - your, you're
- w/ - with
- w/c - which
- w/o - without
- wen - when
- y - why
Bye the way, the message was "Why are you late?"
posted by Reg Adkins | 6:55 PM
1 Comments:
I though RSVP mean't something in French ? :)
It's also a network protocol used to request guaranteed bandwidth, typically for multimedia
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