texting lingo
Phone message slang
Texting lingo is the abbreviated language that emerged from mobile phone text messaging—shortcuts like u for you, 2nite for tonight, lol for laughing out loud.
Character limits and tiny keypads drove the style, though it persists even with full keyboards.
I can barely understand my daughter's texting lingo.
- LOLInternet amusement abbreviation
- BRBTexted temporary departure
- OMGTexted exclamation of shock
- IMOAbbreviated personal-view marker
- emojiDigital pictograph for messaging
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- Symbols and Abbreviationsabbreviation, acronym, shorthand, initialism, contraction
formality of written communication
texting lingoformal writing
Polished, structured text
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