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[Christine Animal]

If you want to know how to write like the youngsters   [:)]

Le langage texto de A à Z

 

[Suze01]

With the T9 predictive texting on most modern phones (afaik) this gobbledigook shouldn't be necessary now.  I use it in French and English and it's so quick using properly written whole words.

[5-element]

I can sort of understand how one would want to abbreviate some words, and how it becomes a semi-code within a particular age group (roughly speaking).

But I cannot work out how it is easier to write "mwa" instead of "moi". Really cannot see the interest in that.[:-))]

[Christine Animal]

Mwa non ploo !

 

[Cat]

And there was me thinking that mwa was a lovey air-kiss [:)]

[Christine Animal]

mdr ! é biz.

 

[YCCMB]

[quote user="5-element"]

I can sort of understand how one would want to abbreviate some words, and how it becomes a semi-code within a particular age group (roughly speaking).

But I cannot work out how it is easier to write "mwa" instead of "moi". Really cannot see the interest in that.[:-))]

[/quote]

Ah, that's because "m" "w" and "a" each require you to press the key just once (each letter being the first one on that particular key) whereas to write "moi" requires you to press the keypad 7 times in total (I think....can't be bothered to go and find my phone to check).

There's a whole new language evolving from textspeak vis predictive text (brought to my attention by the beloved Stephen Fry). For example, you might hear a member of "a particular age group" referring to something as "well book", meaning "well cool" (I can hear grammatical purists cringeing across most of continental Europe). This is simply because when you try to enter "cool" into a moile using predictive text, it'll give you "book" as the preferred alternative.

[Clair]

If this is the future, I'm happy to be left behind... [:)]

[5-element]

[quote user="You can call me Betty"]

Ah, that's because "m" "w" and "a" each require you to press the key just once (each letter being the first one on that particular key) whereas to write "moi" requires you to press the keypad 7 times in total
[/quote]

Of course, I was thinking keyboard not texting, silly me,... thanks Betty, now it makes sense.

 

[Jotty]

Thanks for that..fascinating!

Another site (with a rudimentary dictionary) is

http://www.dictionnairedelazone.fr/

[Frenchie]

C b1 ce thread !