For those of us who send a lot of text messages or chat a lot with instant messenger then text abbreviations save our poor fingers a lot of work. Do you know these ones?
1. LOL Laugh out loud
2. ASL Age sex location
3. BRB Be right back
4. CUL8R See you later
5. E1 Everyone
6. EMA Email address
7. F2F Face to face
8. FYI For your information
9. GR8 Great
10. H8 Hate
11. HAND Have a nice day
12. HRU How are you?
13. ILU I love you
14. MOOS Member of the opposite sex
15. NE1 Anyone
16. PLZ Please
17. QT Cutie
18. SYL See you later
19. THX Thanks
20. TTYL Talk to you later
Here is an example of a conversation between two teenage girls, can you follow it? The full English is in brackets.
下面是两个十来岁女生对话的例子,你能理解吗?完整版的英文在括号内。
wsup (what's up?)
你怎么了?
not much, wsup w/u (not much, what's up with you?)
没什么,你呢?
nothing jc (nothing, just chilling.)
没什么,单纯地在放松。
me too
我也是
how was ur day (how was your day?)
你今天过得怎么样
fine
挺好的
gd (good)
好
urs (yours?)
你呢?
gd gd
也不错
so u datin any1 (so, are you dating anyone?)
你有在约会吗
yup y (yes, why?)
有,为什么这么问?
o im jw. seems like u got a new bf evry wk (Oh, I'm just wondering. Seems like you've got a new boyfriend every week.)
哦,我只是在想你好像每个礼拜都有个新男友
shut up lol (shut up -- laughing out loud)
哦,闭嘴(大笑)
yeah neways (yeah, anyways.)
啊,好吧~