Sunday, May 4, 2008

Text Message Abbreviations - SMS Dictionary Examples

Basically, this is just another expression for sms dictionary, or sms shortcut. These abbreviations are simply the text messaging shortcuts that people use each and every day to make sending sms text messages so much quicker and easier. Some of the shortcuts below are only used for instant messenger messages, or at the end of a text message to convey the mood of the person sending the text message. Some of the txt msg shortcuts are good examples of how people shorten words when they send text messages.

So let's take a look at some common text message abbreviations, then.

SMS Text Messaging Abbreviations:

 Anything - NTHING Are you OK - RUOK? Are - R Ate - 8 Be - B Before - B4 Be seeing you - BCNU Cutie - QT Date - D8 Dinner - DNR Easy - EZ Eh? - A? Excellent - XLNT Fate - F8 For - 4 For your information - FYI Great - GR8 Late - L8 Later - L8R Lots of love/laughs - Lol Love - LUV Mate - M8 Please - PLS Please call me - PCM Queue/cue - Q Rate - R8 See/sea - C See you later - CU L8R Speak - SPK Tea - T Thanks - THX Thank you - THNQ To/too - 2 To be - 2B Today - 2DAY Tomorrow - 2MORO Want to - WAN2 What - WOT Work - WRK Why - Y You - U ------------ Happy/Smiley - :-) Angry - :-|| Very happy - :-)) Confused - %-) Tongue tied - :-& Sad - :-( Saintly - O:-) Laughing - :-D Crying - :'-( Surprised/shocked - :-O Screaming - :-@ Kiss - :-* Pig - :@) Clown - *:-) Wink - ;-) 

There are more sms shortcuts that could make up a so-called sms dictionary, but the more words you use the less effective the shortcuts are as people stop understanding what you're actually saying.

In this case, a short 'vocabulary' is best so everyone knows what is being said.

Okay. Now it's test time. Let's see if you can understand this sentence made up of some of the text message abbreviations above, then:

Steve M Nash is owner of TextMeFree.com, and FreeTextSMS.net - guides to sending free sms online, wherever you live in the world. Learn more about free sms, by subscribing to his free newsletter called The TextMeFree Times, available at http://www.textmefree.com/newsletter.html


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