Text Messaging 101 The Lingo
Posted by Krista Spensley
When it comes to text messaging you can throw just about everything you know about spelling, grammer and punctuation out the window. You have 160 characters to convey your message to the recipient so the goal is to send short concise messages. An entirely new language has been created that consists of acronyms, abreviations and text short cuts to allow the you to use the limited number of characters effectively. That's great but can be difficult to understand if you are new to text messaging so I have put together a list of some of the most common text messaging terms.
- ADAD Another Day Another Dollar
- ADDY Address
- AFAYC As Far As Your Concerned
- AFC Away From the Computer
- ASAP As Soon As Possible
- AUC Aren't You Clever
- B4 Before
- B4N Bye For Now
- B/C Because
- BF Boyfriend
- BF Best Friend
- BFF Best Friends Forever
- BFN Bye for Now
- BRB Be Right Back
- BRT Be Right There
- BTW By the Way
- BW Best Wishes
- BZ Busy
- CM Call Me
- CUL8R See You Later
- CYE Check your e-Mail
- CYT See You Tomorrow
- C YA See You Later
- DGA Don't Go Anywhere
- DGT Don't Go There
- DNBL8 Don't Be Late
- EOM End of Message
- ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
- EZ Easy
- F2F Face to Face
- FOAF Friend of a Friend
- FTR For the Record
- FYI For Your Information
- G1 Good One
- GF Girl Friend
- GFI Go For It
- GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
- GTG Got to Go
- G2G Got to Go
- GTK Good To Know
- JJ Just Joking
- JM2C Just My Two Cents
- JMO Just My Opinion
- K Okay
- L8R Later
- LMK Let Me Know
- LOL Laughing Out Loud
- MOF Matter of Fact
- NC No Comment
- NP No Problem
- OIC Oh, I See
- OMG Oh My Goodness
- OO Over and Out
- SLM See Last Message
- SYS See You Soon
- TAFN That's All For Now
- THX Thanks
- TMI Too Much Information
- U You
- U2 You too
- WTG Way to Go
- WTMI Way Too Much Information
- YW You’re Welcome
- 2MI Too Much Information
- 4COL For Crying Out Loud
What is your favorite text messaging term?
