The Herald Has “Decoded” The Secret SMS Lingo Of Australia’s Sex-Crazed Teens; Parents Everywhere Rejoice
Teens are doing The Sex at each other! On their phones!
Okay guise, RBTL IMHO IWSN 420 9 CD9 99. Roger?
If you’re not part of Gen Y, you might have had trouble reading that sentence. When text-based communication meant trying to squeeze as many words as possible into the text restrictions of the original Nokia 5210, text speak was the “talking in pig Latin while you’re on your family phone that still has a cord on it and your parents are in the living room so they can totally hear you talking about splitting a bottle of Midori with your friends” of the early twenty-first century.
Nowadays it’s not something that no one actually uses because we all have iPhones and grammar is cool these days, but no one seems to have told those clever adults at the Sydney Morning Herald, who have finally got us figured out. Publishing 30 text and sext acronyms that they’ve heroically “decoded” today, the Herald has unveiled the equivalent of a modern Rosetta Stone for concerned parents everywhere.
“We have created a complex language of acronyms as the internet encroaches increasingly into our lives, many of them designed to evade the spying of employers, partners and especially parents,” the article, which was inexplicably published in the year 2014, reads.
Shockingly, “acronyms are particularly popular among teenagers keen to avoid their parents’ surveillance, especially of their relationships and sex lives.” Gracious!
The article cracks the hidden meaning behind the common LOL (“laughing out loud”, and “occasionally lots of love”), moving on to the more challenging “FWB: Friends with benefits (friends who also have sex)”, before tackling the incriminating “CU46: See you for sex”. Personal favourites of mine are “NIFOC: Naked in front of computer” and “IWSN: I want sex now”.
Good to know The Age is on the ball with the modern generation’s hip-and-happening SMS lingo. http://t.co/FHYjkjlDi4 #Australia
— AustraliaReddit (@AusReddit) December 9, 2014
IMHO: In my honest (or humble) opinion I’m just SMH (shaking my head) about the fact that people won’t be able to TDTM (talk dirty to me) NIFOC anymore. This place is hot, there’s 9’S (parents) everywhere.
GTG BRB TTFN.
It also bears pointing out that the majority of these are initialisms, not acronyms. Oh, well. Whatevs (“whatever,” Dad).