Need and laziness did. ROFL is short for Rolling On Floor Laughing and is part of our new way to communicate with phone texts, emails, and instant messages that forced us non-typists to type, type, type. And of course we soon found ways to make all that texting easier on ourselves, with our universally understood computer/texting acronyms. For example, ask me my ASL - What you expect me to write a short biographical paragraph or two? - ASFAYC ASL is WTMI (need a translation?)
Text-Messaging Championships
Yes, it has come to that. In June of 2009, Kate Moore, a fifteen years old from Des Moines, Iowa, won the best-of-three finals round of LG's U.S. National Texting championship. BTW did you know that fourty-two percant of teens say they can text with their eyes closed? According to a recent Wall Street JournaL article, "LG representatives said that more than 250,000 people competed this year, with online competitions testing speed and accuracy, "text-ins" during MTV programs, and live qualifying events in cities around the country." So when can this sport be expected at the Olympics, I ask?
Texting all Inventors
How are we going to save civilization from abbreviating itself into extinction? Please leave a short comment. Photo Credit: Getty Images
cul8r!
CDIWY
wat
i love sheese cakes and there actualy isnt cheese in ther its wut guys only have and wut i love to be squirted in my mouth XD
Wow thats neat
You are absolutely right. I also wonder why the mankind worked so hard to invent writing and we have the tendency to get back to the Stone Age. Soon we will use smoke. It’s so very sad.
I for one do not understand or am familiar with all the abbreviations.
My only hope is that it is just a phase and will soon dissapear.
To Ms. Bellis,
RE: inventors of computers.
I suggest that you read up on George R. Stibitz who developed relay based complex-arithmetic computers between 1937 and 1945. He demonstrated the first remote computation at the US Mathematics Assoc. 1939 conference at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Also, in 1975 the second most popular personal computer was the Southwest Technical Products computer kit based on the Motorola 6800 – my first computer, built in that same year.
Dick
i am dealing with a company currently , and fancy words , dealines and money seems to be highest priority , i only receive letters saying it in the project is going through the process, yet i am NOT seeing any results nor proof of it being patented or recreated from my original prototype, i m told the final poccess is licences and patent. Can anyone help me and comment on this please ?
I am an old fashioned woman, I do like to write things corrctly, but even I have begun to abreviate some words when I text, which is not very often. It is very hard not to ‘come under the spell’ and abbreviate. I was amazed to read the list of abbreviations.
How are we to preserve our language? Make carriage of mobile phones into classrooms a flogging offence and make teaching English language language and literature compulsory from age 5 to 15. Add a couple more languages to that list, one Asian and Latin, as Latin is a root language of English.
I believe its all good! Take it or leave it – soon we might be using symbols
People with smartphones have much better spelling because of the auto-word functions and full keyboards.
I think they pass a u.s. wide law to ban texting and driving, its just not that important, it can wait till later
Confused – call me at 800.468.3681 and we can talk about the process of developing a marketable product. I work for a non profit that teaches the process. Won’t try to sell you any services or marketing packages!!