Guide to Text Language Used by Kids

These days kids are using a variety of text speak to communicate amongst themselves, which makes it hard for people to keep up with them.

If you've only even gotten as far as OMG (oh my god) and LOL (laugh out loud) then you need to GWI (get with it.)

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These include JK (just kidding), FOMO (fear of missing out - in relation to party hopping), DK (I don't know) and LN (last night).

To the simple question WRUD? (what are you doing?), teenage text speak provides an array of replies, such as FB (on Facebook), EAK (eating at the keyboard) and NMJCU? (nothing much, just chilling, you?).

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Some involve numbers - 2L8 (too late) and 143 (I love you - taken from the numbers of letters in each word).

Many abbreviations deter a correspondent from writing anything too incriminating.

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POS is "parent over shoulder," CWYL is "chat with you later" and 5 means "wait a few minutes, a parent is in the room."

Boyd, who believes that children use this secret code as a way to introduce some freedom from their parents in their lives, likens using this lingo to a 21st-century equivalent of a "Keep Out" sign on the bedroom door.

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Some of the abbreviations used in the lingo are"

OMG: Oh My God

LOL: Laugh Out Loud

GWI: Get With It

JK: Just Kidding

FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out

DK: Don't Know

WRUD: What Are You Doing?

NMJCU?: Nothing Much Just Chilling, You?

POS: Parent Over Shoulder

CWYL: Chat With You Later

Source-ANI