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From: Abuwood
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 04:41 AM

Just thought that this insight into phone messaging was worth passing on.

Dad@hvn ur spshl we want wot u want &urthb like hvn. giv us food&4giv r sins lyk we 4giv uvaz. don't test us!save us! bcos we kno ur boss ur tuf&ur cool 4eva!ok?

by Matthew Campbell MA

Can you understand it?

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From: kendall
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 07:08 AM

The Lords Prayer, (sorta)

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From: iamjohnne
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 07:32 AM

One of the problems parents have with kids online is that the kids have their own shorthand and the language just doesnt make any sense. I cringe when I read " N E ! want to chat" or even worse is the "U R 4 ME" For those who dont get it, "Anyone want to chat?" and You are for me" Someday when I am too old to protest, these people will be running our country. I shudder at the thought.

Johnne

"Goin where the weather suits my clothes"

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From: SharonA
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 09:51 AM

Oooh, that IS a scary thought. Think of the laws they'll write up, dated "N congr S this 4 teenth day O sept M ber, 2 thouz N thir T..."

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From: Steve Parkes
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 10:19 AM

Why would anyone want to text the Lord's Prayer to anyone else? In this version, it only makes sense if the recipient knows it in the first place; in which case why not text "LRDS PRYR" and assume the other guy will at least think about it? This kind of thing is just a gimmick to promote text messaging, which will be obsolete ina year or two as bandwidth increases. Kids today, eh?

It's all right, I'll shut up again now!

Steve

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From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 10:56 AM

Maybe this will lead to the revival of the old navy custom of sending short pithy messages by signalling an appropriate chapter and verse reference to the bible

John 1,1

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 01:12 PM

As He sez, BRB!

~S~

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From: GUEST
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 01:46 PM

The title of the thread reminds me of Aa, Megamisama!/Oh, my Goddess! a Japanese manga/anime series in which (in a riot of literary and religious motifs drawn from around the world, with names from Norse mythology forming the core) the heavens are shown as the realm of a vast cosmic computer system.

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From: SeanM
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 12:47 AM

You think those are fun... Wait until you run into the <33+ |)00|)z - where most uses of letters are 'uncool'. For the unhip, the screed before is "leet doodz", idiotspeak for "Elite dudes". OrWeCoUlDaLlStArTtYpInGlIkEtHiSaNdReAlLyBeAnNoYiNg.

M

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From: GUEST,chip2447
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 12:55 AM

Guilty as charged...I use L8R G8R alot...(later gator)

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From: Troll
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 01:02 AM

I sometimes use G8R H8R.

troll (Who loses his on-street parking place every home game. I live about six blocks from the stadium.)