Save money by speaking text!

wishiwasarichgirl

I don't like txt spk either, I use it occas to shorten texts a little but whole strings of it just make the sender sound like some kind of half-wit moron (just my opinion, i don't care what txt-spk devotees think). It's just about forgivable in a text message as each one costs money, but I don't get people who use it online, it's just lazyness IMO.

diamonds

i affirm, nw i cn kip ^ W my niece on msn 2

and im a scotsperson of minority, i never spoke english in the first place I spoke half galic half english in the first place but i would have put...

agree, nw I cn kep ^ we my knC on msn 2, so its not even foolproof.....

still.......

Ken mo fae yeers agoo ?.... " its gud tay talk " ?, eye agree we'er, ken if ye git the rihght rentention fae yir nitwork ye diny hay tay wury boot big bils, ye ken ye sorted it ah oot n yi diny need tay text tay save mula, yi kan...ken just yapawa n no bather boot a big ane cumn fae posty pat

wishiwasarichgirl

ye wha? :eek:

if someone sent me that i would assume it was spam and delete it!:rotfl:

edit, in fact, i understand the scots bit better than the txt speak bit!

p1an0player

Certainly dis W3 sounds lk fun. interestin n Martin's xampl dat "thus" wz transl8D as "sic". bt 4 NE1 wantN 2 actuly snd txtz, it wd taK mch longA 2 copy it frm d W3 n txt spk thN 2 uz predictiv txt.un4tunatly there's sme dudes on deez 4rums hu wrt n txt spk ll d tym, innit

schoolfundraiser

You could of course not bother to text at all and save money that way.

Speaking as a non-texter and in fact a reluctant mobile phone user (I have to remember to make a call every so often so that my pay as you go credit isn't lost) it does seem to be an extension of the teenage "long silence and yeah" phone conversations. But then I'm a grumpy old woman who was born over 50 years ago in the Dark Ages before technology took over our lives.

pezholio

To be honest, I'd rather spend an extra 8p (or whatever) on an extra text than write in text speak.

Thefunkygibbons

I loled


(opps less than 10 characters)

123xyz

Am I the only person who uses the correct punctuation in a test message? It doesn't take much time to press the punctuation key and press the correct symbol. Messages without punctuation can lead to confusion (just ask Lynne Truss!)

redders_:)

I have to agree, txt speak is silly. A phone call is cheaper if you pay 10p a txt for 160 characters that is about 20 or so words, no more than 40. You can get that many into a 20 second conversation easily, if what you have to say is over 1 txt long then you'll save money by sending an MMS which can be up to 1,000 characters for a fixed price which is normally 20p. On my current contract I get SMS for about 1.5p and MMS for about 3p (T-Mobile Flext).

phltrnr

I don't text from my mobile phone, I do it free on my computer.