It's one of the most interesting languages I've ever learnt. This language has no rules, super short, very easy to get your hands on once you are familiarised with it. Though you might get pressure from very powderful England teachers at school, mobile phones exert the pressure to continue to use it. Even now the internet. Once you are online, you will immediately switch to this style or language, it's like wired naturally into you, even while typing this post on this blog. (Even the word blog is an SMS language - web log and the word sms as well). Welcome to the world of Short Messaging Service - SMS!
Kickstarted by my fellow lamer, Mr Teo Sir Hiang sent me a weird super short message. Never knew v=we or tomorrow can be shorten to tomoro, tmrw, tmr... I wonder what is left of the word. Then James start "LOL"ing me...then some start lolz...or lols....lolxx...then only i knew it was Laugh Out Loud. And now I got addicted at...anything I'll be LOLling or their milder forms haha, hehe, though i'm not sure if heh, eheh or mwahahaha have the same meaning.
However, soon I start loving it for it's simplicity. In English, words are very long. Through, though, trough, tough are look so similar. I was so glad to use tho and thru. Then the You became as short as I (though I am tall)...u. Are becomes r. And n. And be b. See c. Bye bye becomes bb or recently Sarah Chong's version, bubye.
As easy as it might seems, some of them send me the totally wrong message. There was once an urgent message which ended in ASAP...as ASAP in Malay means smoke, I seriously thought that the person's house was on FIRE!!! IMAO, I thought a cat was meowing. ROFLMAO, I thought tigers were roaring! LOL...(there's goes again, I told ya!)
But then some were very lame...like swt which Yew Hong ask me in MSN (I wonder why people call Windows Live Messenger still as MSN)...it left me sweating...the anime big drop on forehead. Then he said brb.... which i thought was blurb...the sound you get after eating, after all those who know him...food specialist. Be right back...oh...
Some were super complicated, like TTYL....which was Talk To You Later. GTG got me puzzled for quite some time too. WTF got me into thinking it was Taekwondo WTF before I realised it was something not that polite. Most of the short forms with F are always associated with the most functionable four letter F word. Too bad it's a noun, adjective, verb...it's almost usable at any occasion... That it partially why I never use AFK, not that's it bad, it's useless...away from keyboard? Must well set as away from MSN.
Then some letters are kinda a nuisance and want to show you are very in. Z has almost replaced every S. Of course the "because" becomes cz was a good thing. But plz, spamzz and nitez which kinda leaves me to really Zzz. Anyway, I still like to use it. All my good nights are officially nitez...an addiction given by Hui Ling which I never can get my hands off. Then there is the Y too... it makes things more thingy and smiles more smiley... I wonder y?
IMHO, in my humble opinion that's it, SMS language is really fun, but just gotta know when to use it. Don't simply type capital letters because it sounds like shouting. Never LOL a Welsh as LOL means nonsense to them. A sry should be SORRY when you really mean it. But I myself isn't that sincere either, my thank yous always becomes thx or tx. (though you'll never see I type TQ...which I hate so much, not techie enough, no X power)
Talking about being techie, the internet doesn't seems all that techie. Terms like cookies and worms, "web"sites and spiders? Anyway, just a thought. Hope you enjoy my brief journey on SMS language... (don't ask me why I like to "...")
NEway (that's techie!), gtg, 1 2 zzz dy.
