There used to be a reason to do that. We did it because there were limits to text length and you didn’t want to get charged for multiple texts. Also writing on keypads was a pain. I don’t understand why anyone still does it today, especially people who were not texting back in those days.
This is absolutely not the reason, because even back then when we started doing it, we did it on ICQ, MSN, etc. those chats didn’t have length restrictions, and typing was easy on a keyboard.
It wasn’t a whole sentence entirely composed of shortened words. It was just some frequent words and expressions that were shortened. The reason there was a combination of writing speed and internet jargon.
Gm hw r u??? I ht ths ppl txtng lke ths.
There used to be a reason to do that. We did it because there were limits to text length and you didn’t want to get charged for multiple texts. Also writing on keypads was a pain. I don’t understand why anyone still does it today, especially people who were not texting back in those days.
This is absolutely not the reason, because even back then when we started doing it, we did it on ICQ, MSN, etc. those chats didn’t have length restrictions, and typing was easy on a keyboard.
It wasn’t a whole sentence entirely composed of shortened words. It was just some frequent words and expressions that were shortened. The reason there was a combination of writing speed and internet jargon.
That entirely depended on how 1337 you were 😬