ChatSpeak Beginner's Guide

Messages :-) Read 🎧 A. Read the dialogue below. Can you understand any of it? K-boy > How was the museum yesterday? YOYO > :-( K-boy > Y? YOYO > :-? K-boy > ZZZZ YOYO > LOL, R U coming 2 Day's L8R? K-boy > NO :-( YOYO > PLS! K-boy > OK :-) YOYO > THX K-boy > C U @ 9? YOYO > OK. Don't B L8! B. Listen and read. Does the text help you understand the dialogue above better? Chatspeak A beginner's guide ChatSpeak is also called netspeak because you can use it on the Net and in e-mails. Another name is SMS language because lots of people use it when they write text messages on mobile phones. It all started because people wanted a short and easier way to write messages. On mobiles they have to pay

A humorous educational page introduces chatspeak through a messenger conversation full of abbreviations, emoticons, numbers, and omitted letters. The joke is that casual SMS shorthand such as “LOL,” “R U,” “L8R,” and “C U” is difficult to understand without a guide, making it useful as a reaction to confusing texting or outdated internet slang. EN: A humorous educational page introduces chatspeak through a messenger conversation full of abbreviations, emoticons, numbers, and omitted letters. The joke is that casual SMS shorthand such as “LOL,” “R U,” “L8R,” and “C U” is difficult to understand without a guide, making it useful as a reaction to confusing texting or outdated internet slang.

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