'DTXTR' translates teen text into English

Sounds like a great app. I can't understand half of the lazy bastardizations of the english language going on in text form these days.

Then you are too old.

Interesting thing :) I think parents should understand kids and shouldn't texting with code, their first task is to teach kids. Parents can allow kids to eat with hands, but they should teach kids to eat with knife and fork.

User "OBSL33t" may have been making a little pertinent joke?? Anyhow, barring exceptions meant to be amusing or mini-brain teasers, people who intentionally use language having a primary goal of excluding another group are indulging in class behavior (exclusionary). If someone pulled that shit on me (that is, attempted to imply an unsubstantiated social ranking) I'd put them in their place.

Someone isn't better (or worse) because they know a secret handshake. That's something, of course, that those teens who are obsessed with finding their "social niche" don't necessarily want hear. But then again, who said, as this article implies that the pragmatics of brb, wtf, and rofl were developed or are used exclusively by teens? ^ ^

I loathe texting. The medium is slow and clunky. The worst part? People think that the same form of typing is acceptable when they have a full keyboard in front of them. Tsk tsk.