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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on August 13, 2011, 12:30:45 PM
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This is a text-message conversation between me and an ex-student nicknamed Swirl.
ME: This is my new mobile, a Galaxy S2. I finally ditched the old Nokia. How are you?
SWIRL: About time! Im very well thank you, how have you been?
ME: I'm good. What do you mean "about time"? Are you saying I'm stuck in the dark ages? lol And OMG! I'm using all the text messaging stuff. As a 2tor I 1der why I don't h8 it but I guess the 10dency to do so was a 4gone conclusion.
SWIRL: No of course not, I meant I think it was about time for an upgrade. Wow an english teacher using text speak, I've never heard that one before!
ME: I use text messaging 14s but not 4 adults.
SWIRL: Oh I see, fair enough. I never thought of for teens as '14s'. Thats clever.
ME: Most tutors h18s but I don't. I often invite them round 40 and biscuits.
SWIRL: But when do you get the time, considering you teach most of the time?
ME: Well, other tutors use their homes differently. Theirs is just for teaching but -4 coffee and biscuits as well. Come round any time.
ME: You have to admit that using "-4" in text messaging is really cool. You lot are just amateurs.
ME: Who's the best at text messaging? I don't want 2.2 anyone but you know it's me.
SWIRL: LOL! I do have to admit that your text speak is far to advanced for us amateurs. And out of everyone I've come across, you took the title with "2.2".
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A serious question----how much time does this "text speak" actually save?
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That took me ages to work out. I think I prefer Peter's missing punctuation!
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I played one-on-one B-ball with my 17 year old last night and shocked the lad with how many baskets I made :) Nice to show the kids we can still do stuff in our dottage.
I still have not text messaged. I don't know how impressive all that blue print is Mince - but well done for offering cookies.
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Read that lot and I had to read it again, I still dont get some of it. I have a daughter-in-law who sends me that type of message and I
just call her and ask her to speak to me, it might just be a ploy to get me to call her. My son calls me instead, as he knows he will just get a call demanding a translation into English.
I dont think it is an age thing, just that I like to read real stuff and not gibberish, perhaps that means I am old.
Dang.
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I understand most of it---Mince's "to point to" was, I'd like to think, a piss-take---but I get the feeling it takes longer to remember the abbreviations than it would to type out the complete words.
Now, if only there was some kind of symbol I could use for my second name......
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My 17-year-old asked me for some new ear plugs for his music device as there was a loud whinning in one of his ears.
Well of course I had to wonder out loud if it was the fault of the ear plugs.
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ME: This is my new mobile, a Galaxy S2. I finally ditched the old Nokia. How are you?
SWIRL: About time! Im very well thank you, how have you been?
ME: I'm good. What do you mean "about time"? Are you saying I'm stuck in the dark ages? lol And OMG! I'm using all the text messaging stuff. As a 2tor I 1der why I don't h8 it but I guess the 10dency to do so was a 4gone conclusion.
SWIRL: No of course not, I meant I think it was about time for an upgrade. Wow an english teacher using text speak, I've never heard that one before!
ME: I use text messaging 14s but not 4 adults.
SWIRL: Oh I see, fair enough. I never thought of for teens as '14s'. Thats clever.
ME: Most tutors h18s but I don't. I often invite them round 40 and biscuits.
SWIRL: But when do you get the time, considering you teach most of the time?
ME: Well, other tutors use their homes differently. Theirs is just for teaching but -4 coffee and biscuits as well. Come round any time.
ME: You have to admit that using "-4" in text messaging is really cool. You lot are just amateurs.
ME: Who's the best at text messaging? I don't want 2.2 anyone but you know it's me.
SWIRL: LOL! I do have to admit that your text speak is far to advanced for us amateurs. And out of everyone I've come across, you took the title with "2.2".
Wasn't this a sketch by the Two Ronnies?
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Read that lot and I had to read it again, I still dont get some of it.
ME: This is my new mobile, a Galaxy S2. I finally ditched the old Nokia. How are you?
SWIRL: About time! Im very well thank you, how have you been?
ME: I'm good. What do you mean "about time"? Are you saying I'm stuck in the dark ages? lol And OMG! I'm using all the text messaging stuff. As a 2tor (tutor) I 1der (wonder) why I don't h8 (hate) it but I guess the 10dency (tendency) to do so was a 4gone (foregone) conclusion.
SWIRL: No of course not, I meant I think it was about time for an upgrade. Wow an english teacher using text speak, I've never heard that one before!
ME: I use text messaging 14s (for teens) but not 4 (for) adults.
SWIRL: Oh I see, fair enough. I never thought of for teens as '14s'. Thats clever.
ME: Most tutors h18s (hate teens) but I don't. I often invite them round 40 (for tea) and biscuits.
SWIRL: But when do you get the time, considering you teach most of the time?
ME: Well, other tutors use their homes differently. Theirs is just for teaching but -4 (mine is for) coffee and biscuits as well. Come round any time.
ME: You have to admit that using "-4" in text messaging is really cool. You lot are just amateurs.
ME: Who's the best at text messaging? I don't want 2.2 (to point to) anyone but you know it's me.
SWIRL: LOL! I do have to admit that your text speak is far to advanced for us amateurs. And out of everyone I've come across, you took the title with "2.2".
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Well, if you have to explain it... ..0
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I guess I could have continued with these:
Stop analysing your dreams. There's no .22222222222 nightmares.
I know you had a crush on me but I don't think ur/me yet.
If you join the London Marathon, I will ?4u.
Or even:
I think Jack and Mark are not telling the truth. You interrogate Jack and I will ?.
I made # browns for breakfast.
I popped round the side of the building for a quick /.
I found some corned beef in the ham% from America.
Truly timesaving stuff.
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Mince is a tw@
(I'm getting the hang of this already!)
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Mince is a tw@
(I'm getting the hang of this already!)
You are a a quick learner!
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Mince is a tw@
(I'm getting the hang of this already!)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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He's also a bit of a pr@
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He's also a bit of a pr@
Second time around, the joke is not so funny (true perhaps, but still not so funny).
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He's also a bit of a pr@
Second time around, the joke is not so funny (true perhaps, but still not so funny).
Are you saying it's old h@?
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He's also a bit of a pr@
Second time around, the joke is not so funny (true perhaps, but still not so funny).
Are you saying it's old h@?
Th@ is not what I said. It's different when some1 else does it 1ce.
I just laughed the first time and not thereafter.
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- u got nething b8r 2 do?
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- u got nething b8r 2 do?
What's 'nething'?
'B8r' = Bater
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He's also a bit of a pr@
Second time around, the joke is not so funny (true perhaps, but still not so funny).
I maybe shouldn't have been so rude about the f@ tw@. (€k though)
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He's also a bit of a pr@
Second time around, the joke is not so funny (true perhaps, but still not so funny).
I maybe shouldn't have been so rude about the f@ tw@. (€k though)
Now Th@s better. made me smile. ;D ;D ;D
Howeve, is the latter comment ;'You reek though', or should it have meant 'eureka thought'?
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is it (ur ok though?)....think I might be getting the hang of this!
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is it (ur ok though?)....think I might be getting the hang of this!
Of course! You're ok though. (Euro k though) :-)
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Thanx, Lil. I'm not very good at this. I like Peep's final comment, now that you have decoded it.
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Mince '& generally causes problems.
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Arrr, old h@! Me, I've got my first smart phone (connected to the internet, that is, had a Blackberry for years, but it wasn't very smart). It's a Nexus S, Mincey, not as super duper as yours, but good enough pour moi.
The other day, my 21 yr old daughter told me to stop typing on my phone while she was trying to speak to me. I told her she should have waited till I'd finished before she started to talk to me. ;) Oh my, how the tables have turned! Hubby was a bit blunter last night as I was checking on the rugby while we were watching Indiana Jones - I think his exact words were, "Get off that bloody phone!"
What with my Nexus and my new laptop, I think I may need some help to dry out soon!
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Arrr, old h@! Me, I've got my first smart phone (connected to the internet, that is, had a Blackberry for years, but it wasn't very smart). It's a Nexus S, Mincey, not as super duper as yours, but good enough pour moi.
The other day, my 21 yr old daughter told me to stop typing on my phone while she was trying to speak to me. I told her she should have waited till I'd finished before she started to talk to me. ;) Oh my, how the tables have turned! Hubby was a bit blunter last night as I was checking on the rugby while we were watching Indiana Jones - I think his exact words were, "Get off that bloody phone!"
What with my Nexus and my new laptop, I think I may need some help to dry out soon!
;D ;D ;D