What’s That They’re Saying?
ICYC, your kids speak a different language. As if you did not know. I talk to parents all the time, they check the facebook, the myspace, and the text messages of their kids. “Nothing to worry about,” they tell me, “The kids just text back and forth, just letters really. No one can spell these days.”
Your kids can arrange – well- many things via texting and whatnot.
If you are curious, these sites can provide insight into some of the slang and text abbreviations your children may be familiar with. Or they may be helpful if your friends have a very bright young child and you are trying to communicate but it is too late for spelling over her head. Granted, seeing two grown adults with child saying things like “I wanted to tell my DH- GYHOOOYA” might be alarming to some people, but it is an option.
Not all of the sites have clean language (that’s why they needed to be translated in the first place):
1. Netlingo
2. Internet Acronyms Dictionary
4 . Urban Dictionary