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aesir ( member #17210) posted at 7:25 PM on Sunday, July 7th, 2013
I take it Oklahoma would be for more formal communications.
Your mileage may vary... in accordance with the prophecy.
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tushnurse ( member #21101) posted at 8:11 PM on Sunday, July 7th, 2013
I too am a proper English texter. I refuse to respond to my kids if They opt to text me using texteese.
I tell them in the real world if you sen messages, emails etc using texteese they will not be considered seriously. I know that when I receive stuff like that from coworkers or subordinates I don't take them seriously.
Me: FBSHim: FWSKids: 23 & 27 Married for 32 years now, was 16 at the time.D-Day Sept 26 2008R'd in about 2 years. Old Vet now.
itainteasy ( member #31094) posted at 5:06 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
No textese here either.
I will use "LOL" and I do use smileys though.
If someone texts me a message that lQQkz lyke dis I do not respond until they text again using English.
TrulyReconciled ( member #3031) posted at 5:10 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
I'm not old, I'm legendary (the kids at camp said so 
)
No ... they said you were a legend in your own mind ... 
"In a time of deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act."
UndecidedinMA ( member #33732) posted at 5:31 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
I alawyas told mine when he said I was too old or embarassing him:
It can always get worse!
ME - BSO
Him - FWSO
OW - DBC Xwife
DDAY 09/14/11 ONS w/DBCxWOW with 4 mos EA
Solidly in R
Rebreather ( member #30817) posted at 7:31 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
Yes, my 14 yo son tells me it is weird when I use lol or a smilie. I keep explaining to him I've been texting much longer tha he has!
Me BS
Him WH
2 ddays in '07
Rec'd.
"The cure for the pain, is the pain." -Rumi
unfound ( member #12802) posted at 7:46 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
I too am a proper English texter. I refuse to respond to my kids if They opt to text me using texteese.
same here.
sometimes though I'll respond with their original text correctly spelled out, other times I'll just respond with a random picture of my foot or a light switch.
unfoundling: "wht??? that mks no sense!"
me: "neither does your text, buy a vowel".
I do think that LOL and such has been around long enough that it's acceptable and understood and no longer cool or uncool. it just *is*. meh.
although when I got a phone that had emoticons on it, I could hear my kids eyes rolling when I texted them .
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lieshurt ( member #14003) posted at 8:03 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
other times I'll just respond with a random picture of my foot
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Must Survive ( member #34533) posted at 8:20 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
I love txting, been doing it since the start. For me, the txting makes sense because.....
I took and used shorthand for work years ago. To me txting is just like shorthand.
My kids don't like that I use "k". But it is ok to use r, u, 2 etc? Not sure why.
Me BS
WS: Just a squished bug on the window of my life!
Divorced-Let my new beginning start
They have a choice: they can live in my new world, or they can die in their old one." — Daenerys Targaryen
shatteredheart7 ( member #39734) posted at 8:42 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
I am getting a big laugh out of this. My kids, including my dd's boyfriend of over 2 yrs, get on me all the time because I will be lecturing them by text and get tired of saying the same things over and over so I will say something like this; what did I tell you about not letting me know what you were going to be doing after work? You know how that upsets me..., instead of having to complete my sentence over and over again. In response I get; you and those stupid dots!!! So now I do it ALL the time, just between sentences for absolutely no reason other than I know it pisses them off!
I love the idea of texting them back potassium, I'll have to use that next time because they also hate when I say K. My oldest dd actually writes it out, Okay, in her texts.lol
Paybacks are a bitch kids...and your momma can be too! 
I figure this is the most harmless way I can get revenge for their teenage yrs! Lmao!
Me~40
FWH~46
Married 8yrs
Together 11 1/2
Me~ 3 kids, 21,17,14
Him~no kids
A with a mutual "friend" for 2+yrs
He confessed 9/9/12
A was over 2/12
7/13~ Happier than we have been in yrs!
wincing_at_light ( member #14393) posted at 9:01 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
If you want to text me, you play by my rules and like it...otherwise, you can fucking call like a grown-up.
That's my philosophy on texting.
Oh, that and "any text exchange that goes beyond 5 texts had better be foreplay for sex, otherwise you're just trying to pissing me off."
If whatever it is can't be said in 5 text messages, it's likely too important for you to be thumb-typing it to the fucking cellphone I leave in Jeep 90% of the time anyway.
You can't beat the Axis if you get VD
unfound ( member #12802) posted at 9:09 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
also, the kids texting me when we're both in the same house 
. wal's head would probably explode .
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ka-mai
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Kids on the playground can be so cruel. “Get off the swings you’re like 50, and stop talking about Soundgarden, we don't even know what that is."
jrc1963 ( member #26531) posted at 9:35 PM on Monday, July 8th, 2013
WAL - FWSO and I text each other when we're sitting on the same couch...
Me: BSO - 56 Him: FWSO - 79 DS - 23 D-Day - 12-11-09, R - he finally came homeYour life is an Occasion. Rise to it. - Mr. Magorium, "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium"
want_to_forgive ( member #20470) posted at 9:31 AM on Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
This is so inappropriate but it made me laugh (it's from damnyouautocorrect.com, if you haven't seen it you have to!)
College age daughter is trying to text her boyfriend but accidentally texts her mom: "I want to see you tonight, I am DTF"
Mom texts back: "what is DTF?"
Daughter, realizing her mistake, texts back: "down for food!"
M 11 years
Me: BS 38 Him: WS
DDay June 2006, LTA BFFOW
Divorced April 5, 2013
Not making a decision is making a decision.
Bluebird26 ( member #36445) posted at 12:04 PM on Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
My ds who is 14 tells me if I am going to write LOL I better be laughing out loud. I use smilie faces or abbreviations I get NO mum just don't and the facepalm. So now I do it just to annoy him
Me: BW
Best thing I gained in my divorce - my freedom.
Life's good.
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