Expert on Text Speak???

[sinsfire]

Ok I am not really even sure what to say about this. Yeah its from August but I just saw it today, did a search and nothing here came up.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/26/kids.drugs.text/index.html

To sum up, some guy has figured out that he is now an expert in teen text speak (confused with "1337 5p33k" several times throughout the article) and is using his new founds expertise to scare the crap out of parents and anyone else who will listen to him. Other then seeming just plain stupid do people actually say these sorts of things in texts? some of the examples went way beyond your standard text/tweet character limits.

Thoughts, comments, concerns regarding what qualifies as an expert because this guy just seems like a tool to me.

 

[Zer_]

That whole thing made me laugh. Thanks.

 

[CosmicZombie]

That was hilarious, fear-mongers are worth it just for the laughs.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Oh man, that article was golden.

 

[RatRace123]

That article was pure hilarity and that message was strangely readable, but wouldn't it be easier to just use actual letters, that must've taken 10 minutes to type that one segment.

If your strung out on crack, you're probably not going to be able to text like that.

7h47 "3xp3r7" 15 4n 1d107.

See, that took me about half a minute, whereas I can type all this in about the same time.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

eye cnt tail wht dey ish spking. xD

 

[sinsfire]

That was hilarious, fear-mongers are worth it just for the laughs.

I laughed for a second and then I realized that the article was from CNN. I mean FOX News would be one thing, but I expect better from CNN.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Either I'm really disconnected from what the kids are doing these days, or they just made up a lot of that "slang." Also, POS means "Piece of shit," not "Parent over shoulder" -- as in, "this phone is a total POS." Nice example of 1337 at the end there, but it's too complicated to type much more than screen names in these days. For those who don't know, it was originally a cypher used by hackers to keep people from reading their e-mail messages, but it was so easily cracked that it's not really used for that anymore. It has absolutely nothing to do with teen text speak.

 

[tomtom94]

I can't decide whether to laugh at people's stupidity or to cry that this guy is taken seriously.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I can only imagine the parents who are scared witless and going through their kids stuff after they read something like this, and punishing them without any real provocation. lol

"I know what you are doing with all your numbers....and...symbols and what-not! Whose l-3-3-7 now, huh!?" XD

 

[manic_depressive13]

Reminded me of this.

Spoiler

I can just imagine parents writing to him, saying "My child has a message claiming, 'i herd u lyk mudkips'- what does this mean??"

"Well, mudkips are a type of psychedelic drug. You should keep an eye on your child."

 

[sinsfire]

Reminded me of this.

Spoiler

I can just imagine parents writing to him, saying "My child has a message claiming, 'i herd u lyk mudkips'- what does this mean??"

"Well, mudkips are a type of psychedelic drug. You should keep an eye on your child."

I loved the early MT stuff. And yes this came to my mind almost instantly as well.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Do you know what this means: %*@:-( ?
Or this: ~~#ZZZZZZ ?
If the answers are no, you're not a teenager who uses alcohol or drugs.

I laughed, I cried, I died a little inside.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

So his website is like Urban Dictionary, but stupid? Interesting.

 

[Artina89]

I giggled. That article was just plain stupid. Funniest thing I have read all day

 

[Lilani]

I love it when innocent people who aren't familiar with text speak or the ways of the Internet try to understand it. It's like watching a one year old trying to figure things out. So, so cute.

 

[dfcrackhead]

I went to his site noslang.com and went to the sexting page, and for some reason it strikes me as HILARIOUS that after all the "fuck me harder" and "get naked on cam" the last term is "Will you call me?"