Instant Messaging

[YoTeAmo]

I'm sure that you've all had to read instant messages or text messages. I'm ok with a few of the codes like "POS" which stands for "Parents over shoulder" because, obviously, the person who typed the message couldn't exactly type that out. However, the tolerance ends when people start saying instant messaging words. I nearly died about a week ago when a boy in my algebra class actually said "L-O-L" which was followed by "O-M-G-W-E". I personally thought he sounded very unintelligent. You know you have lost brain cells from typing "IM" words when you begin to say them. I was actually confused with what he had said even though I have been reading my friend's conversations, which are all written in "IM" words sadly, for years. I've never actually heard someone say those words before that day. What are your thoughts about "text" or "IM" talk?

Decoding:
Lol--Laught out loud.
Omg w/e--Oh my gosh! Whatever!  

[Buccellatte]

This has been over-discussed to the point of extinction.  

[SonarP]

D: What about those who are literate and say the words, too?  

[Seabutcher]

Uhhh, people ACTUALLY spell out acronyms in real life? For non- comedy purposes?

I'm not sure whether I should laugh at them or pity them.....  

[Marcus McFlufferson]

When someone says to me "W-U-U-2" in speech, they'll have my foot through their bottom jaw. Up until that day, I can tolerate it.  

[-Melllz=)-]

When the MSN talk starts becoming vocabulary in normal speech, you know something had gone wrong. I am only guilty for saying 'lawl'...and hopefully I won't start spelling out 'L-O-L' and other similar words  

[Yo Sereno]

YoTeAmo

I'm sure that you've all had to read instant messages or text messages. I'm ok with a few of the codes like "POS" which stands for "Parents over shoulder" because, obviously, the person who typed the message couldn't exactly type that out. However, the tolerance ends when people start saying instant messaging words. I nearly died about a week ago when a boy in my algebra class actually said "L-O-L" which was followed by "O-M-G-W-E". I personally thought he sounded very unintelligent. You know you have lost brain cells from typing "IM" words when you begin to say them. I was actually confused with what he had said even though I have been reading my friend's conversations, which are all written in "IM" words sadly, for years. I've never actually heard someone say those words before that day. What are your thoughts about "text" or "IM" talk?

Decoding:
Lol--Laught out loud.
Omg w/e--Oh my gosh! Whatever!

WHen my friends and I use them, its usually for the humor factor that its rediculous to say them in real life. We all know what the letters mean, what the person means to say, why they said it, and see the humor in it as well.

Mostly though, we will use the LOL, WTF, and OMG. Of course, we all know it isnt proper to use them in regular speech, but thats why we use them, because it is funny just using them.

Its not ebcause we use them to substitute what we mean. Its for the humor of it.  

[rae-chan-sensei]

YoTeAmo

I'm ok with a few of the codes like "POS" which stands for "Parents over shoulder" because, obviously, the person who typed the message couldn't exactly type that out.

And here I thought "POS" stood for "piece of s**t"... rolleyes  

[iCrayon]

What's the point of saying "LOL" when you can actually laugh (out loud)?
neutral  

[XxJennessaxX]

Personally, I say "ROFL" rather than actually roll on the floor laughing. I'm a teacher, not a nutcase! rofl
I say it like "Raw-full."
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[XxJennessaxX]

rae-chan-sensei

YoTeAmo

I'm ok with a few of the codes like "POS" which stands for "Parents over shoulder" because, obviously, the person who typed the message couldn't exactly type that out.

And here I thought "POS" stood for "piece of s**t"... rolleyes

Ooh, good one! rofl
Click  

[rae-chan-sensei]

XxJennessaxX

rae-chan-sensei

YoTeAmo

I'm ok with a few of the codes like "POS" which stands for "Parents over shoulder" because, obviously, the person who typed the message couldn't exactly type that out.

And here I thought "POS" stood for "piece of s**t"... rolleyes

Ooh, good one! rofl
Click

...No, that's seriously the only way I've ever seen it used. But then again, when I actually used to use instant messangers my friends and I were all old enough to not need constant parental supervison, so it's probably just something I never came across.  

[Yo Cole]

well....Im not unused to it. ^^; *sweatdrops* One of my friends says "O-M-G" alot. XD its kind of just become a cute little quirk of her. but still, she speaks literately (is that a word? I unno. o_o) almost all the time. She only says "O-M-G" when she's overly excited about something. >_>  

[poetic pink flamingos!]

Reminds me of the boy in my Spanish class who talks in chatspeak.

Though my friends and I do talk in ChatSpeak, but just to mock them.  

[YoTeAmo]

rae-chan-sensei

YoTeAmo

I'm ok with a few of the codes like "POS" which stands for "Parents over shoulder" because, obviously, the person who typed the message couldn't exactly type that out.

And here I thought "POS" stood for "piece of s**t"... rolleyes

It might be used that way. It depends on the way you say it. I've only seen it used as "parents over shoulder" when my friends type it to me.