Decode text messages?

LegacyUser

Hi all

A friend is concerned that her son is sending/receiving suggestive texts
to other children.

Does anyone know of a list of phrases in text speak, and in normal English?

Or even a website that can translate text code into plain English?

Thanks

smelltheglove

Google is your friend, google the slang dictionary and you should find what you need.

Khannie

urbandictionary.com is a useful starting point. They write some awful garbage though. Very difficult to read.

barneysplash

Here is a useful webpage from Google :

http://knol.google.com/k/how-to-understand-your-kids-text-messages#

You should be able to find it all online, but if you can't sure throw them up here and we'll have them done for you in no time.

Also, sites like urban dictionary are great, but remember that a lot of stuff has different interpretations, very dependent on context, and also a lot of words change meaning over time, eg. score (not txtspk but still relevant) used to mean sex, but now it just means kissing.

Kildrought

And 'wet' apparently now means someone is good looking.

Das Kitty

Kildrought wrote: »

And 'wet' apparently now means someone is good looking.

Oh my lord. I can see how there could be huge confusion there!