but people who reply to messages simply with "K" (for "OK") annoy the frigging hell out of me. it's the pinoy SMS addiction that further degraded the average filipino's ability to spell properly; eventually it invaded chat as well. i routinely get chat responses (both in and outside work) with "K" to mean "i think i understood what you mean and (1) i think it's good, or (2) i agree."is adding another letter to complete "OK" too much effort for most people?
then there's people who respond with "uu"; it's a corruption of "oo", the tagalog word for "yes". problem is "uu" reminds me of how mothers refer to baby poo or to their babies pooing. i guess an unavoidable part of the filipino texting culture is an average filipino texters tendency to try to appear cute. cute is nice, in itself, but is best if it's inherent. forcing cuteness all the time is eventually cloying and it just... i don't know. i just find the fact that people enjoy using "uu" weird.
and there's people who use "jajaja" and "jejeje" (daryl mentioned it has something to do with brazillian online gamers) which transcended the gaming subculture and entered mainstream messaging.
i'm sure people who know me find me weird for being too bothered by trivial things like these.
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Because a few more thumb presses are too much effort. =P
I'm guilty of the "k," though I usually do it if (1) I'm too distracted (either multitasking, or if I'm in one of my moods, or if I'm half-asleep), or (2) I couldn't care less. =P Heh.
okay, phones i could understand. but couldn't people give a bit more effort when they're chatting or using email?
my phone is perpetually on dictionary. :-p
i don't like it when "k" is used as pronoun, which is pretty confusing because some would mean "ko" and some would mean "ka"...
hrp kc pg super hba ng ssbhn, esp f ur axsn d site usn a mobile fone.
yeah, there's always the T9 technology, which can get so convoluted over time. then again, the thumb gets over exerted and exercised by too much action. i wish i just bought a qwerty mobile phone.
i feel the same way about people who say dito na me instead of dito na ko.
if ever i type "jajaja" in chat, it's always a typo. lol. frickin' H and J have to be right next to each other.
"uu" MY GOD, I hate getting that. Also this: poh. As in, "oKaY na pOh." (And why does it have to be in freaking toggle, too?? WHY??)
i'm bothered by these trivial things too but, then again, i'm weird.
that aside, it's loathsome how texters massacre the language. and yes, my beef is mainly because; i don't understand it much (sorry for being stupid); and it irritates me beyond traffic jams that i exert an effort to numb my fingers just so i can use proper punctuations and correct spelling but in the end receive a hapless one letter reply or a monosyllable. hello?! ungracious-much! i'd rather you not reply all together... or better yet, die.
yan galit na ko! waaaahhh >_
true. but generally people use "q" to mean "ko."
what's more confusing is the use of "2" -- sometimes people use it to replace "to" or "too" or "tu", sometimes they meant the last syllable ought to be repeated. ang gulo ng rules ng textspeak.
why can't people put extra effort in writing OK pero kaya nilang magdagdag ng H sa PO?
@.@
hnay2 lng u jejeje
One other pet peeve: using 'q' for "ako"
"lapit na poh q......"
Tapos sandamakmak pa na period ang gagamitin. !)@#(!)@(#!
kung di naman sandamakmak na comma (like that even makes sense), hahaha.
mukhang mas malaki galit mo kesa sakin sa mga ka-text mo ah.
Gods above, that's so true! It's so annoying how people can put so much effort into the wrong spelling.
Sorry, I get carried away by these things.
Of course, a good way of avoiding this kind of confusion is to revert to using Alibata. Text is, after all, functions as a syllabary in a lot of cases. But that might require additional subjects in school, etc etc.
more annoying is when they toggle through different cases and weird looking special characters! like hello?! if you can exert that much energy to blind and confuse other people then why not direct that into something functional?! \(>O<)/
HAHAHA. CAN I JUST SAY AMEN OUT LOUD???
I guess "cute" outweighs function and readability. We are totally uptight and humorless people who can't appreciate the art of over-the-top text-speak. We should hang our heads in shame. Oh, poor us! Whatever shall we do!
You just did. Poof!
But I'll let you say it again, if you want.
Hehehe. Cheers, Pops! How's Cebu?
i guess that's because "me" only requires 3 keystrokes instead of 5 for "ko"
You know my opinion on really tiny QWERTY keypads. It's just a waste of extra keys, really, without really preventing carpat tunnel syndrome.
I realized I used 3 "reallys" on this comment alone. I should break that habit.
Oh man, Paul. That's a lot of vitriol behind that reaction. I'm suddenly scared. Meep.
Sorry again, I had flashbacks of a Friendster message sent to me written in textspeak: "El0w pow, kay0w pow ba ang taga-*****." The whole message, short as it was, came flooding back.
*snicker*
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