That's rather ridiculous.

I can't say I have seen or heard any of this yet although I can't say I socialise with any teens anymore either!

susannah said:

I can't even use predictive text!

jami0mckay said:

Me either.. someone I know likes to put it on my phone and then I cannot use it. The other day I switched it on my accident and I almost threw the phone.

shanti0608 said:

I took Kelly to see Bryan Adams last year for a birthday present surprise....anyway when I was texting people to say where we were the predictive text typed ASLAN BEAM instead of Bryan Adams, so people thought we'd gone to see ASLAN BEAM in concert.

jami0mckay said:

ASLAN BEAM Rocks

I bet they were all jealous

jami0mckay said:

Me either.. someone I know likes to put it on my phone and then I cannot use it. The other day I switched it on my accident and I almost threw the phone.

I don't understand any of this but





Teenagers are inventing a whole new slang based on the predictive text function used to send messages on mobile phones.

They are replacing the words they mean with the first alternative that comes up when typing a message, reports the Daily Telegraph.

So "book" means "cool" - because book is the word that first comes up when you type cool into your phone using predictive text.

And when teens say "zonino!" it means "woohoo!" and when they refer to someone's "nun" they mean their mum.

If a teenager says they are in the "sub", it means they are down the "pub". When they get a "pint" in, it becomes a "shot" and the "barmaid" is a "carnage".

And if they are really lucky, after a few "shots" they may get to "lips" (kiss) the "carnage".

David Crystal, a linguistics expert at Bangor University, said the language is known as textonyms, or t9onyms (pronounced tynonyms).

"Playing with language isn't new, kids have been doing it since at least Victorian times," he said.

"It shows incredible ingenuity and, believe it or not, a high degree of literacy on their part.

"And don't worry if you find it confusing. There's little chance many of these words will be incorporated into our language. They'll likely fall by the wayside."?
[Edited 2/6/08 3:42am]

jami0mckay said:

Lazy fucking chavs

I don't understand any of this but





Teenagers are inventing a whole new slang based on the predictive text function used to send messages on mobile phones.

They are replacing the words they mean with the first alternative that comes up when typing a message, reports the Daily Telegraph.

So "book" means "cool" - because book is the word that first comes up when you type cool into your phone using predictive text.

And when teens say "zonino!" it means "woohoo!" and when they refer to someone's "nun" they mean their mum.

If a teenager says they are in the "sub", it means they are down the "pub". When they get a "pint" in, it becomes a "shot" and the "barmaid" is a "carnage".

And if they are really lucky, after a few "shots" they may get to "lips" (kiss) the "carnage".

David Crystal, a linguistics expert at Bangor University, said the language is known as textonyms, or t9onyms (pronounced tynonyms).

"Playing with language isn't new, kids have been doing it since at least Victorian times," he said.

"It shows incredible ingenuity and, believe it or not, a high degree of literacy on their part.

"And don't worry if you find it confusing. There's little chance many of these words will be incorporated into our language. They'll likely fall by the wayside."?
[Edited 2/6/08 3:42am]

So "book" means "cool" - because book is the word that first comes up when you type cool into your phone using predictive text.

jami0mckay said:

Hardly news this one - it was in the film About A Boy, which is years old!


One thing this highlights for me, which no one seems to pick up on, is:

When are the mobile phone companies going to take notice of this and start programming in words that people want to use?!

I have lost count of the times I have typed things in and been offered all kinds of nonsense words that do not exist and have been forced to spell a perfectly normal word which does indeed exist!

For example:

"DJ"

1st attempt = EL
2nd =FL
3RD =EJ
4TH =EK

then it just gives up and asks me to spell it.

And, Nokia, get real - just load it up with the swear-words in the factory and stop kidding yourself we aren't going to use them!

EVERY new phone I have to go through the whole "f*ck", "p*ss", "sh*t", "tw*t", "c*nt" and especially "b*ll*cks" routine

I'm done.

rocknrolldave said:

jami0mckay said:

Just to clarify, that isn't the name of some bizarre dance routine that I have going on.

thats funny cuz one time my bf text me. It wasnt on predictive text though. He was just rushing. He meant to send "stop bitch" and instead it came out "stop chubi". Im like chubi?

He says he meant to type bitch. SO now when I piss him off he calls me chubi

DanceWme said:

awww so romantic

billy jack chubi.

jami0mckay said:

DanceWme said:

When he does that just say " Yeah thanks fuzz nutz"

chillichocaholic said:

how do u know his nuts are fuzzy?

DanceWme said:

A wild guess....I thought they all were

thats funny cuz one time my bf text me. It wasnt on predictive text though. He was just rushing. He meant to send "stop bitch" and instead it came out "stop chubi". Im like chubi?

He says he meant to type bitch. SO now when I piss him off he calls me chubi

thats funny cuz one time my bf text me. It wasnt on predictive text though. He was just rushing. He meant to send "stop bitch" and instead it came out "stop chubi". Im like chubi?

He says he meant to type bitch. SO now when I piss him off he calls me chubi

DanceWme said:

The same thing happened to me at dinner last night! I meant to say to my wife, "Please pass the butter" but what came out was "You mean bitch, you have really ruined my life".





























J/K, that is an old joke.

RodeoSchro said:

susannah said:

I can't even use predictive text!