Nov
I Wanna Text You Up…..
Written by ShikoGuest Post from Our Kid.
Smtyms I dnt rily unstnd da msgs pple snt 2 me thru da 4ne si I thot wld b a gd idea 2 as da msg dat brevty is, in txt msgs, not da sol of wit. So hia I am str8 up, telng u dat dnt b tripn: Write the words in full, please!
Ur msg may be kul bt sup wit da abbreviations? Credo? Tym? Wat? Ur in a hurry whn txting pples? Wat is hpng is terrbl! Tis a WOMBAT! Waste of money brains n tym!
Dring my bday, I got sevl ‘H Bday’ msgs. Imagine dat! I cnt w8 4 X-mas coz t wl b sun hia n u cn bet ur ass dat pple wl txt u to ask: wea u@? Mry X-mas n hppy nu yr!
Grrrrrrr! Tll b gr8 2 ctch up. But dnt do it thru sms. Plz! Plz! Plz! I rlly wnt 2 knw hw ur festiv cson is bt not n dat manner.
Nxt al hia anna guy telng me hw he waw sm chik readn my blog n burstg out laughg. Wat am I mnt 2 do? Bottle ma blog n sell it in spmkts? Dat wnt sel 4 ril! Ppl cn say, ‘U r da bomb bt wnt buy da blog. All I cn prms is da nxt blog ll b kul.
Or my bddy who txts men sez: Mt me @ Ambsdr Hotl. Let hm thnk abt tht! Why dint I sho up? How cm? Well, I dint undstnd! So he txts me again: I snt mny msgs en no rply frm u!
So hia is da rules! If you mis me, dnt snt me dos txts dat say: Gawd! Bn mssng u. Cnt blve u dnt no tht! Spendg lotsa tyme frm u is no gd 4 mi. I lyk u so much! U mek mi proud 2 b ya frnd!
I wnt undstd! And u cn bet I wont rply wit a txt dat sez: U r not juz ma pal bt ma pearl! Cant blv u lyk me so much et am juz a 1st class guy wearng 2nd class clad in dis 3rd wld city ofNrb.
No. Dis gotta stop! Or sun, I cn picture my boss snding a txt memo to da staff: WHEN @ WAK, DNT RID A MAG! DNT CHT ONLYN!
Undst? Aaaaaah. Tis getg beta. N thn 1 of us will rply: UGTBK:—-)
You’ve got to be kidding? To da boss? Dat wld b crzy! Cm On!
L8rs.
From The Archives: When Serena Came Calling.
By Digzer on Nov 26, 2010
Chick you’ve made my day!!!
I cannot begin to tell you just how much I hate those texts! At least you got a Hppy Bday; my pal got HBD!!!! I swear there’s a guy I was considering dating until he started sending me such texts. I mean, now that Zain has helped all of Kenya exponentially, instead of texting just call!
By Digzer on Nov 26, 2010
Oh, just noticed it was a guest posting. Great work kid
By OtienoHongo on Nov 26, 2010
2make it wrse dis hbt is nw takin root in emls. I av recvd mails 4from jbsikers written in dis abbv. sickening! Okay, just trying to feel how it feels like to write like that but imagine someone writing to you asking for a job and writing like that then complaining that there are no job!
By grace kay on Nov 26, 2010
ha ha nice one!!! i can’t stand that habit either
xoxo
By Cold Turkey on Nov 27, 2010
This post’s style drives the point home in a truck!
By Wamathai on Nov 30, 2010
hehehe, this is funny. Those text messages are too annoying, i thought i was the only who thought so.. Half the time i don’t understand what they mean..
By shekyn on Dec 1, 2010
Lol. I hate those kind of sms(es) so bad. Grrrr.
By Tony on Dec 1, 2010
Those kinds of sms raise my blood pressure but this post got me laughing. Nice.
By Cee on Dec 5, 2010
I’ve never taken so long to read such a short post, it was so frustrating that it became funny. I detest such texts or posts on my fb wall….aiiii….I know for texts you pay per character lakini, si fb you can write a novel they don’t ask???
I don’t reply to such texts and when you call to ask, my answer is simple, “Write in English, or Kiswahili, I don’t understand Abbreviology
By Mama Shujaa on Dec 7, 2010
LOL. Hilarious!!! Great work Our Kid! One question: Did you proofread before posting??!!
By Darius on Dec 10, 2010
LOL Our Kid…what the hell was that?
Isn’t it just easier to call someone?
By Maua on Dec 11, 2010
That was meant to be…ok I get it now.
Shix, by the way, tagged. See me, create a 60 secs with Shiko. No rules.
By SupremeGREAM on Dec 20, 2010
Boss, where have you been? Great post between. Those kind of text messages always get into my nerves
By kbaab on Dec 27, 2010
What the hell! I really hate such texts and or chats. I rarely respond to such.
By Mo on Jan 4, 2011
I couldn’t read beyond the third paragraph. It was just… painful.
I have a good friend that is a repeat offender. She speaks fluent English but chooses to text in txtspk in a stream-of-consciousness manner sans punctuation and with the most atrocious syntax. I’ve tried to bring up her texting style with her (it’s that hard to decipher!) one or two times but she shrugs me off as being ‘old-fashioned’ and tells me to ‘get with the program’, whatever that means.
*sigh*
By carolkmail on Jan 6, 2011
Holy Crap! Does everyone speak Duck these days??? As @Cold Turkey says, driving the point home in a truck. Tickled all the same…
By njeri on Jan 12, 2011
Hapi nw yr shko!
Just testing ya!
Am so guilty of sending those texts so am not even saying anything at this point! Am hr hidin my hd undr da seat!
Tnkx4folown my blg!
Ok sorry,sms ni bob.
By woolie on Mar 30, 2011
NKT…..no seriously ’tis a timely reminder that language is one of the few things that differentiates us from the beasts….though sometimes me wonder
By Mueni on Apr 6, 2011
Read this posting, reminded me of annoying acronyms,ICILISCOMK and I decided IHA!
I cried, I laughed, I spilt coffee on my keyboard and I decided I hate acronyms
By Bloodmoon on Mar 20, 2012
old fashioned or not, text me like that, copy paste, return to sender with caption: please decode!
By Crispus M. Shaki on May 16, 2012
This should be a form of torture my eyes are bleeding from reading this stuff anyway it is quite hilarious