Ok now for a lighter side of life. If you have a teen in your house then you can understand where this post is going. I have a 17 year old that is a txt maniac. She loves to do the short 30 letter texts that come out the other end as full sentences when translated. Now over at techcrunch they found a handy site for all of us who get headaches trying to figure out what exactly some of this means. Read below for their take on it.
LG has launched an amusing (and for some, useful) application that enables you to translate over 2000 words teens tend to use when they’re sending text messages to regular English, and the other way around. The tool is called DTXTR
and the aim is to let is keep you in the know of what these kids are txting bout these days, xactli.
Frankly, there are a lot of basic words that can’t be converted to ‘teen text’ with the tool yet, but you can always submit a term for inclusion in the glossary. And if you want to test your own mad txt skills, you can do a little quiz on the site to see if you’re up with the times or not.
Yesterday, the NY Times came out with an article on texting, with physicians and psychologists saying the increased usage of SMS by teens leads to “anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation”. Just imagine how much more of that you’d see if teens were to use full phrases and actual words in text messages!
Told you that this is a good idea. So if you have the ttyl, lol, rofl’s rolling in your brain and want to find out more then check it out and see what you think.