TXT Speak!

If your teenager is anything like mine, then you never see them without a cell phone nearby. Even if they have the ringer on silent, at some point – several points – during the day you’ll hear the steady taptaptap as another message is sent out to their friends about who they’ve seen, what they’ve heard, and what are we going to do tonight?

(The same thing we do every night, Pinky – try to take over the world!) (Wow, that previous paranthetical aside totally made me old, didn’t it? Sigh. Pinky and the Brain, kids. Educate yourself! 🙂 )

Now, if your a hip parent (and I TOTALLY AM, though my lameness increases with each declaration of my hip status. This parenting thing is CONFUSING!)you text your kids, too, and your kids send you back messages filled with abbreviations and acronyms that you don’t understand. It’s ok. We’ve all been there and know there’s a learning curve. The Webopedia is even here to help with a list of 1,125 entries of what your kid might possibly be trying to tell you.

For the most part, it’s pretty easy to pick up – which is good, especially with the teenage “sexting” that’s going on, and how dangerous it is. If you happen to get a random text that was accidently sent to you (what? it happens!) and you don’t know what it means, Fox Atlanta has a list of some things you may want to be on the lookout for – just to make sure your kids are playing it safe. These are the top 50 text acronyms that all of us should know:

1 8 Oral sex
2 1337 Elite
3 143 I love you
4 182 I hate you
5 459 I love you
6 1174 Nude club
7 420 Marijuana
8 ADR Address
9 ASL Age/Sex/Location
10 Banana Penis
11 CD9 or Code 9 Parents are around
12 DUM Do You Masturbate?
13 DUSL Do You Scream Loud?
14 FB F*** Buddy
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16 FMLTWIA F*** Me Like The Whore I Am
17 FOL Fond of Leather
18 GNOC Get Naked On Cam
19 GYPO Get Your Pants Off
20 IAYM I Am Your Master
21 IF/IB In the Front or In the Back
22 IIT Is It Tight?
23 ILF/MD I Love Female/Male Dominance
24 IMEZRU I Am Easy, Are You?
25 IWSN I Want Sex Now
26 J/O Jerking Off
27 KFY or K4Y Kiss For You
28 Kitty Vagina
29 KPC Keeping Parents Clueless
30 MorF Male or Female
31 LMIRL Let’s Meet In Real Life
32 MOOS Member Of The Opposite Sex
33 WYCM Will You Call Me?
34 MOS Mom Over Shoulder
35 MPFB My Personal F*** Buddy
36 NALOPKT Not A Lot Of People Know That
37 NIFOC Nude In Front Of The Computer
38 NMU Not Much, You?
39 P911 Parent Alert
40 PAL Parents Are Listening
41 PAW Parents Are Watching
42 PIR Parent In Room
43 POS Parent Over Shoulder or Piece Of Sh**
44 PRON Porn
45 Q2C Quick To Cum
46 RU/18 Are You Over 18?
47 RUH Are You Horny?
48 S2R Send To Receive
49 SorG Straight or Gay
50 TDTM Talk Dirty To Me

How many did you know? Pay attention to you kids – give them reasons to type out PAL and PAW more often, and as I ALWAYS stress – TALK TO YOUR KIDS.

In text speak, if you have too.

“RU SRS? GTYR, YG! 143.”

(Are you serious? Go to your room, you’re grounded! I love you.)