Comments on: How To Text Message Properly http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Staci at Just Bloggled http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7838 Staci at Just Bloggled Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:40:34 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7838 I do the same for the most part. I know a few abbreviations, like LOL or BTW, but not much more than that. To top it off, I don't have a text plan on my cell phone because I only use it once in a blue moon. A few weeks ago, I couldn't send pic messages, as opposed to text, and had to call AT&T. Let's just say the rep got a really good laugh at me because I didn't have the first clue how to switch between capital letters, lowercase, and phone numbers. It took me 5 minutes just to compose one short test message. Moral of that story: should I ever know enough people that texting becomes a regular event in my life, I need to switch to one of those keypad phones. Even then, I'll still probably do what you do, which is type everything out, and carry around some kind of cheat sheet in my purse so I know what the person is saying back should that person abbreviate. .-= Staci at Just Bloggled´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.justbloggled.com/2010/02/i-have-honey-do-list-mile-long-no-honey.html">I Have a Honey-Do List a Mile Long & No Honey To Do It</a> =-. I do the same for the most part. I know a few abbreviations, like LOL or BTW, but not much more than that. To top it off, I don’t have a text plan on my cell phone because I only use it once in a blue moon. A few weeks ago, I couldn’t send pic messages, as opposed to text, and had to call AT&T. Let’s just say the rep got a really good laugh at me because I didn’t have the first clue how to switch between capital letters, lowercase, and phone numbers. It took me 5 minutes just to compose one short test message.

Moral of that story: should I ever know enough people that texting becomes a regular event in my life, I need to switch to one of those keypad phones. Even then, I’ll still probably do what you do, which is type everything out, and carry around some kind of cheat sheet in my purse so I know what the person is saying back should that person abbreviate.
.-= Staci at Just Bloggled´s last blog ..I Have a Honey-Do List a Mile Long & No Honey To Do It =-.

]]> By: Anne Rooney http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7833 Anne Rooney Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:05:18 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7833 I was a very early adopter, so am perfectly happy texting - started in the mid 90s. But it wasn't Prince who started it - it's been around for ever. If you look Churchill's correspondence with his wife-to-be they used txt speak, too :-) And they weren't the first.... .-= Anne Rooney´s last blog ..<a href="http://stroppyauthor.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-orphaned-is-orphaned-work.html">How orphaned is an orphaned work?</a> =-. I was a very early adopter, so am perfectly happy texting – started in the mid 90s. But it wasn’t Prince who started it – it’s been around for ever. If you look Churchill’s correspondence with his wife-to-be they used txt speak, too :-) And they weren’t the first….
.-= Anne Rooney´s last blog ..How orphaned is an orphaned work? =-.

]]> By: Lucy Coats http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7830 Lucy Coats Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:56:16 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7830 I'm both lazy in the texting line (prone to thumb exhaustion) and I like proper English (well, I am a writer). Bad combination. However, my solution is to change my phone dictionary. Thus, if I type R it comes out as Are, and so on. Perfect. However Twitter's constraints of 14o characters, combined with the fact that I am a mouthy tweeter, mean that I have learned to be a ruthless shortener of retweets so that I can have my own say. My daughter (15) is keen on 'k'k (meaning that's really fine, dear mother) and other such textual delights. I put up with it as I know she is articulate really. She's just speaking a different language when she texts. My son (18) is monosyllabic in his texting. I get 'Fine' or 'Yes', which is 'k'k when he's at home, but not so ok currently when he is in South America (Bolivia, not Chile, thank God). Very funny as always, Jen. I really appreciate your posts and try to catch up often, even if I don't always comment. @lucycoats http://www.scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com I’m both lazy in the texting line (prone to thumb exhaustion) and I like proper English (well, I am a writer). Bad combination. However, my solution is to change my phone dictionary. Thus, if I type R it comes out as Are, and so on. Perfect. However Twitter’s constraints of 14o characters, combined with the fact that I am a mouthy tweeter, mean that I have learned to be a ruthless shortener of retweets so that I can have my own say. My daughter (15) is keen on ‘k’k (meaning that’s really fine, dear mother) and other such textual delights. I put up with it as I know she is articulate really. She’s just speaking a different language when she texts. My son (18) is monosyllabic in his texting. I get ‘Fine’ or ‘Yes’, which is ‘k’k when he’s at home, but not so ok currently when he is in South America (Bolivia, not Chile, thank God). Very funny as always, Jen. I really appreciate your posts and try to catch up often, even if I don’t always comment.

@lucycoats http://www.scribblecitycentral.blogspot.com

]]> By: Jen http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7828 Jen Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:33:37 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7828 ;) ;)

]]> By: Becky http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7827 Becky Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:26:49 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7827 ur funy! ;o)~ ur funy! ;o)~

]]> By: Mom To The Power Of Three http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7766 Mom To The Power Of Three Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:22:20 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7766 I am almost 40 and I simply cannot text. The only time I send my husband a text message is when I am at the computer and I send it by email. I don't know the short form for words yet. I am sure by the time my kids are teens that I will have to use it more. I enjoy your blog and have given you a blog award. You can check it out on my blog. .-= Mom To The Power Of Three´s last blog ..<a href="http://momtothepowerofthree.blogspot.com/2010/02/beautiful-blogger-award-and-sunshine.html">Beautiful Blogger Award and Sunshine Award</a> =-. I am almost 40 and I simply cannot text. The only time I send my husband a text message is when I am at the computer and I send it by email. I don’t know the short form for words yet. I am sure by the time my kids are teens that I will have to use it more. I enjoy your blog and have given you a blog award. You can check it out on my blog.
.-= Mom To The Power Of Three´s last blog ..Beautiful Blogger Award and Sunshine Award =-.

]]> By: Heather http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7754 Heather Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:02:20 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7754 I have never done a text message and like you..If I was to try I would go with the long hand. I have never done a text message and like you..If I was to try I would go with the long hand.

]]> By: Brahm http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7738 Brahm Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:00:39 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7738 Your son is hysterical. I am over 30 -- okay, 40 -- and text though I do write things out. I use "u" and yes I feel like have to follow it with some witty Purple Rain reference... not a real word, or is it now? Fun post! Your son is hysterical.

I am over 30 — okay, 40 — and text though I do write things out. I use “u” and yes I feel like have to follow it with some witty Purple Rain reference… not a real word, or is it now?

Fun post!

]]> By: Nancy at The Chic Boutique Blog http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7734 Nancy at The Chic Boutique Blog Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:07:57 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7734 I'm getting lots better with texting, but I still a rather antiquated phone according to my kids - LOL! So I have the kind where each key is 3 different letters, so it take awhile to write it out in LONGHAND! Using as mne shrtctz az i cn. :)) .-= Nancy at The Chic Boutique Blog´s last blog ..<a href="http://olliemckayschicboutique.blogspot.com/2010/02/wordless-wednesday_24.html"></a> =-. I’m getting lots better with texting, but I still a rather antiquated phone according to my kids – LOL! So I have the kind where each key is 3 different letters, so it take awhile to write it out in LONGHAND! Using as mne shrtctz az i cn. :) )
.-= Nancy at The Chic Boutique Blog´s last blog .. =-.

]]> By: Erin http://www.redheadranting.com/how-to-text-message-properly/comment-page-1/#comment-7731 Erin Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:27:22 +0000 http://www.redheadranting.com/?p=953#comment-7731 I hate texting but I'm learning. I even started tweeting but it's not going so well. I guess it is harder to learn things after 30. Started following from Friday Follow. I hate texting but I’m learning. I even started tweeting but it’s not going so well. I guess it is harder to learn things after 30. Started following from Friday Follow.

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