May I present a question that sits at the forefront of young culture today: when do text messaging abbreviations become ridiculous? What is the line you should draw? And, equally if not more important, at what age are text abbreviations a NO-NO?
Capital letters are excluded from this. My personal opinion is that you come off as a bit of a d-bag when you use correct capital letters and punctuation when texting. Stray away from that if you can.
I am more speaking of the 2, u, r (HATE IT), tonite- not to be confused with 2nite (WORST), nite, b4, etc.
Let’s use a recent text that I received as a case study; very approps as this is the text that instigated my WHOA THERE HAS TO BE A LINE FOR THIS thinking.
“Yeah def. Im goin 2 philly this wknd but maybe sumtime nxt wk we can get a drink…”
OK I am down with the word shortenings- the def, wknd, goin, etc. Learn it, love it, use it. The 2 presents a problem for me. But then there is the pink elephant in the room/ middle of the sentence with the SUMTIME. Necessary? I think NOTS.
What is this person doing there? I will tell you what he is doing there. He is taking a word and going so far as to feel the need to “text-abbrev” it that he substituted a mathematical name into said word all to replace the need to type in ONE LETTER. Dude. Type the letter.
I hve 2 stop thinkin bout thz or I mgt get craz-e b4 2nite.
Oh, and I am getting a drink with him and am looking forward to it and attempting to not let the text-abbrev issues cloud my judgment.
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