Text messaging and chatting on social media has become a form of communication for many people. Whether we want to engage or not to a certain extent we are forced to either use or understand this form of communication which is meant to be brief, quick and easy but is often a cryptic form of messaging and sometimes very hard to decipher.
Cell phone text messaging and other technology have become very standard as a form of communication but not always easy to understand. Many times the short form is missing one letter but throws the whole word off or has too few letters and they represent the phonetic sound of the words but can still throw you off completely.
Anyway it is been a while since we had a new thread on this topic. I am one who finds it difficult to guess some of the words at times both in English and Spanish but thankfully the web has many resources that provide the meaning of text short forms and acronyms.
For e.g
d- de
K= que
x= por
dim- dime
tqm= te quiero mucho
tqi= tengo que irme
cdt= cuídate
pq, pk, xk, xq= porque or por qué
npn- no pasa nada
spro- espero
xfa- por fa or por favor
+= más
-= menos
Here is a brief list from Pimsleur
Another good source here:
blog.ilsc.com
-MP.
Cell phone text messaging and other technology have become very standard as a form of communication but not always easy to understand. Many times the short form is missing one letter but throws the whole word off or has too few letters and they represent the phonetic sound of the words but can still throw you off completely.
Anyway it is been a while since we had a new thread on this topic. I am one who finds it difficult to guess some of the words at times both in English and Spanish but thankfully the web has many resources that provide the meaning of text short forms and acronyms.
For e.g
d- de
K= que
x= por
dim- dime
tqm= te quiero mucho
tqi= tengo que irme
cdt= cuídate
pq, pk, xk, xq= porque or por qué
npn- no pasa nada
spro- espero
xfa- por fa or por favor
+= más
-= menos
Here is a brief list from Pimsleur
Spanish Texting Abbreviations and Slang
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blog.pimsleur.com
Another good source here:
How to Text in Spanish Like a Native Speaker
Contributed by Jilynnette Centeno Millan , Spanish Instructor, ILSC-San Francisco Edited by Lacy Edney, Marketing and Social Media Coordinator, ILSC-San Francisco We are always communicating with others; if not by email, then by text messaging. Let’s be honest, most of us rarely ever talk on the...
blog.ilsc.com
-MP.
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