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Major Nikon

(36,827 posts) Wed Mar 28, 2012, 05:24 PM Mar 2012

Does your kid send you text shorthand you don't understand?

I figured out how to get revenge.

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Daughter: French club today, pick me up at 4:15

Me: WILCO

Daughter: What??? 4:15, OK?

Me: Roger

Daughter: Who is Roger?

Daughter: Can I go to the mall after school?

Me: Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full

Daughter: ???

Daughter: Did you get my messages?

Me: I read you 5 by 5

Daughter: WTF?

I think I'll start using CB lingo next.

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Does your kid send you text shorthand you don't understand? (Original Post) Major Nikon Mar 2012 OP

XD sakabatou Mar 2012 #1

Yeah, my daughter keeps texting me asking for a hundred bucks so she can go to the mall and shop. bluesbassman Mar 2012 #2

Stop the pain! CRK7376 Mar 2012 #3

LOL cyberswede Mar 2012 #4

My favorite misuse of LOL... Demoiselle Mar 2012 #9

OMG I needed to read this... EmeraldCityGrl Mar 2012 #5

My daughter is an English teacher at a South Florida middle school. RebelOne Mar 2012 #6

I make up stuff all the time. bif Mar 2012 #7

my son was braggin last night about how he excels at proper grammar in text seabeyond Mar 2012 #8

sakabatou

(42,186 posts)

1. XD

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 05:30 PM

Mar 2012

My mom will sometimes use Norwegian words to me. Of course, I use Japanese.

bluesbassman

(19,379 posts)

2. Yeah, my daughter keeps texting me asking for a hundred bucks so she can go to the mall and shop.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 05:43 PM

Mar 2012

I have NO idea what she's talking about.

BTW, your exchanges were great!

CRK7376

(2,203 posts)

3. Stop the pain!

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 11:23 AM

Mar 2012

I'm laughing to hard and my sides hurt. Plus too much Pepsi has shot through my nose reading your post. I have no clue what my kids are texting me most of the time. I'm a dinosaur and hate texting. Old and slow and don't care...My revenge is like you do, I use Army lingo that I've used forever....Roger that!

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

4. LOL

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:04 PM

Mar 2012

I think I'll start using CB lingo next.

Demoiselle

(6,787 posts)

9. My favorite misuse of LOL...

Reply to cyberswede (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 06:10 PM

Mar 2012

...A story that appeared here on DU, I think...Some poor well-meaning soul thought that LOL stood for "Lots of Love" and signed off with it in very inappropriate messages...like condolence notes. (I'm so sorry that dear Aunt Minnie has passed away...LOL, Jane Doe.)

EmeraldCityGrl

(4,310 posts)

5. OMG I needed to read this...

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 03:05 PM

Mar 2012

Can't stop laughing. Now I know how to get a phone call
instead of the endless texts...

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

6. My daughter is an English teacher at a South Florida middle school.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:47 PM

Mar 2012

She said that many of the papers the kids submit include texting shorthand.

bif

(22,773 posts)

7. I make up stuff all the time.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 05:43 PM

Mar 2012

Me: YNK.
Daughter: Huh?
Me: You Never Know.
Daughter: That's pretty good. I'll have to start using that one.

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)

8. my son was braggin last night about how he excels at proper grammar in text

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 05:53 PM

Mar 2012

and the others that seem the best are a couple guy friends and his father, while the girls are horrible in grammar and spelling.

so no, i get for proper, articulate texts.

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