{"id":5539,"date":"2021-08-23T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:45:58","slug":"looking-back-texting-lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2021\/08\/23\/looking-back-texting-lingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back \u2013 texting lingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:104%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p style=\"line-height: 150%\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Here is Some <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Common <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Texting Lingo<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 110%\">&lt;3 = love<br \/>\n2day = today<br \/>\n2 = to<br \/>\n4 = for<br \/>\nb4 = before<br \/>\nbc = because<br \/>\nbffl = best friend for life<br \/>\nbrb = be right back<br \/>\ng2g = got to go<br \/>\nh8r = hater<br \/>\njk = just kidding<br \/>\nl8r = later<br \/>\nlol = laugh out loud<br \/>\nomg = oh my gosh<br \/>\nr = are<br \/>\nrofl = roll on floor laughing<br \/>\nsrsly = seriously<br \/>\ntmrw = tomorrow<br \/>\nttyl = talk to you later<br \/>\nu = you<br \/>\nw\/ = with<br \/>\nw\/o = without<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:50% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 3.84%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 3.84%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper 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style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did u txt ur bffl w\/lingo back in 2011? ΄σΟσ΄«Γ½ Western students did, and \u201c&#8230; it started infesting student assignments &#8230;\u201d an article from the 2011 Griffon Yearbook claims. \u201cGetting papers done faster by using language shortcuts was the favorite \u2026\u201d side effect of this lingo, it added. While we\u2019re not sure if shortcuts are still finding their way into formal essays, we\u2019re sure the students have embraced an entirely new list of common texting lingo, and that they would srsly rofl at the lingo used only a decade ago!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 30px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 30px;}<\/style><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}