English Slang - Text messaging: LOL WTF BRB and more!

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Hi there, my name's Ronnie and I'm going to teach you some crazy slang, new age computer

You probably already know this, maybe you do, ASAP, do you know what that means?

It means as soon as possible.

We use this a lot for letters or memos in offices.

The other one that is probably almost universal by now is this, I O U.

When you think about this, you just read out the letters and it's I O U, but do you know

what it really means in English?

I'll tell you, I is obviously I, meaning myself, O is you have to pay someone, and this letter

is the same as you.

So if someone gives you an I O U, this means that they have to give you money.

Good thing, good thing.

These are basic ones that you maybe already know, but there's more complicated things

as we get into more technology, as you can see on this side of the board.

This is actually called text message.

We take out the vowels and we're left with the words.

I'm going to teach you the basics of them, so maybe you can decipher them for yourself.

Let's start with this one.

You, as I said, refers to yourself.

This word or this letter R, can you tell me the English word that has the same pronunciation?

It is R. So you will see variations on this in English, like you are, crazy.

The next thing we have is a number.

What is a number doing here?

Don't worry, we're not doing math.

Eight is the past verb of eat, and it is spelt A T E, but it's pronounced exactly the same

as the number in English eight, which is spelt like this.

So eat, past tense is eight.

The next one is another number.

Who can say this number?

It is number two.

We have two, three, four, ten, two different spellings of this word in English.

The first one is the actual number, which is spelt T W O.

Then we have two, and when you're comparing something, we use two with two O's.

The pronunciation of these are all the same.

And the next one is the letter, that's a number, four.

If I was going to spell this as a number, it would be F O U R, but in English, when

we say the word, it's four.

Maybe you get a package or a letter from one of your English-speaking friends, and it says

You sent me a present.

I love presents.

So these are the basics, or the easiest ones that I grew up with, but the new computer

age has made a whole new, crazy, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of short forms.

I'm going to go through the most basic ones with you very easily.

This one, I think, is the most popular.

My friends use this a lot.

It's called L O L. What does L O L mean?

It means "laugh out loud."

This pronunciation is very strange.

It's not "la-ha-ga-ha."

It's actually "laugh."

Laugh out loud.

This one, B R B, is actually "be, write, back."

So if you are typing at your computer, you're on Messenger or on Skype or you're text messaging

with your friends, and you have to go to the toilet really badly, you can just write "BRB,"

and you can go away from your computer, and then come back and continue typing, and your

friend will know, "Ah, they're taking a break," instead of just leaving, and they start to

Where'd they go?

The next one is PLEASE, also known as PLEASE, very, very polite, short form PLEASE.

I've told you already that this is "ate."

"Later, later, later, see you later."

This is a common greeting that we say to people, "See you later?"

Check this out, "See you later."

So if someone writes, "See you later," now you don't have to say, "Kill a R."

"Ah, great, bye."

So this is what this means.

The next one is QUESTION MARK.

So any time in English you see a question mark, it means a question, "For you."

So this means someone wants to ask you, you, a question.

"Question, for you."

OMG, this is one that a lot of people say, usually young girls, anyone out there that

is very, very fanatic about something, "Oh my God!" or "Oh my God!"

There are very different variations, there's different variations on this, but it basically

means, "Oh my God!"

Now some people might get offended if you say, "Oh my God!"

So you can also say, "Oh my goodness!" or "Oh my gosh!"

But OMG actually stands for, "Oh my God!"

And the very last one, one of my favorite ones, WTF.

Does anyone know what this means?

It means if you are talking to your friend and they have a question for you, and they

ask you like, "Oh my God!"

Maybe it was a very strange question and you do not want to answer the question, you can

say, "What the fuck?

What are you talking about?

So this word is, "What the fuck?"

Now in English, this is a bad word.

So instead of saying a bad word, you can type, "WTF?"

Your mom won't even know that you're swearing, how lovely.

So the next time you get a text message from your friend that says, "For you, please write

You can now figure out what they are trying to say.

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there might even be a quiz on this for you.

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