This is the beggining of the article written by Kate Kelland to Reuters UK:
“It may look like gobbledegook, but the most streetwise of teenagers would have no trouble translating and responding to it in kind.
A new language is being developed by mobile phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets.”
This is the beggining of the article written by Kate Kelland to Reuters UK:
“It may look like gobbledegook, but the most streetwise of teenagers would have no trouble translating and responding to it in kind.
A new language is being developed by mobile phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets.”
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@ 12:24
I have been wondering about textonyms for some time, ever since I was in DUBLIN (just see what textonym you can make ot of that… lets just say it begins with F and it’s a good job Dublin doesn’t end in a g!). I was sending my girlfriend a KISS, which turned out as LIPS (quite appropriate I suppose). Others I spotted were:
EAST / FAST / DART / FART; RICH / SHAG;
SUPPOSE / PURPOSE;
ARAB / CRAB;
COOK / BOOK / COOL / BONK;
IF / HE;
GO / IN;
GAS / HAS / GAP;
SEW / SEX / PEW;
LIVE / LITE / KITE
DIRT / FIST
Starting to type the girls name RACHEL the first 5 letters turn out as RABID (Is this trying to tell us something?)
There’s many, many more.
Hours of amusement, or expaining to do if you don’t proof read your texts before you send them.