More than a century before the mobile phone, a #Victorian love poem using #textspeak. See two even earlier examples here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/nineteenth-c...

idr y i sed “5min”
bt it bin 2hr 😭

snx = gone
phn @ 1%
wifi = 💀💀💀

“Last time,” i swr
lol no
prolly doin it agn tmw

#vss365 #prompt #last #textspeak #poetry #writing #blueskypoetry #skywriting #5amwritersclub

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I hadn't seen my friend Karl the Curmudgeon in a couple months, so we met for lunch, and he was excited to tell me the great news about text-speak he heard from @grammargirl.bsky.social.

Plz Avoid Text-Speak. laughing-stalk.blogspot.com/2025/05/plz-... #humor #humorcolumn #textspeak

More than a century before the mobile phone, a #Victorian love poem using #textspeak. See two even earlier examples here: publicdomainreview.org/collections/nineteenth-c...

It could be useful to someone. You never know. #abbreviations #languages #Englishlanguage #onlinemessaging #textspeak

Amazing they are still about really, we still have, inter alia:

AM
PM
c.
CV
i.e.
MA
nem.con.
op.cit.
ibid
percent
PhD
p.a.
pp
Q.E.D.
q.v.
R.I P.
sic
viz
vs
et al
and, of course, etc.

#Latin acronyms, the original #textspeak!

Someone at work just asked what N.B meant in something I sent them:

"It means 'note well'. It's a common abbreviation. Cf. with E.G."

#Latin acronyms, the original #textspeak!