4 ppl of a certN age hu DK SMS lingo

So the buzz today is all about the Pew/Internet study Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transistion to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation" One of the major points being (no surprise to parents of teens) that teens use text messaging or SMS frequently and instead of email. Of course, they have developed a pidgin vocabulary to accomodate typing on a telephone. As some might recall, I had a recent incident when a fellow blogger accused me of being to "LOTR" and I had to make an emergency call to my 20 year old son in Cincy to find out what "LOTR" (Lord of the Rings) meant. The particular accusation was that I was being like Sauron, the big eye, and thus too critical. Anyway, to save others from puzzlement and seeming like you are "86" (out of) it, here are links to various explanations of the lingo as well as dictionaries and even a form where you fill in the SMS and it returns the meaning. Have fun, but don't end up AATK. Signing out for now, AAYR, barbara i. Guide to acronyms and text messaging. SMS Text Message Acronyms Type in the SMS and get back its meaning Web Friend slang dictionary Traveling to Britain? Here is the BBC's Fcts + Fgrs