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1 posted on 02/09/2011 8:35:27 AM PST by MNDude
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“OMG, when did we start talking like txt msgs?”

Wild guess: when we started texting.


2 posted on 02/09/2011 8:36:32 AM PST by Tublecane
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IDK.

WTF?


3 posted on 02/09/2011 8:38:20 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Sarah Palin "used" it, but she was making fun of Obama's "Win the Future" slogan (WtF), playing on the general meaning of that acronym be calling his speech a "WTF" moment. Yes, it was a bit "salty", but it wasn't suggesting that it's something Sarah would use in normal conservation.
4 posted on 02/09/2011 8:39:01 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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Don’t AXE me.


7 posted on 02/09/2011 8:41:29 AM PST by annieokie
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you just have to adapt. I let my kids know when I am speaking in ALL CAPS!


8 posted on 02/09/2011 8:43:02 AM PST by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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That was Barack Obama’s WTF moment. Sarah just pointed it out—and probably killed (if you’ll pardon the metaphor) Obama’s plans to introduce a spiffy new phrase to characterize his regime, in the tradition of the New Deal or the Great Society.

I suspect that Win the Future is now defunct.


11 posted on 02/09/2011 8:46:44 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I’ve believed for some time this was going to ultimately destroy the English language


14 posted on 02/09/2011 8:50:25 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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WTFPWND!!!


15 posted on 02/09/2011 8:51:29 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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About the time we started keeping up with hugh, series news whilst in the shower.


18 posted on 02/09/2011 8:54:45 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Conservative States of America has a nice ring to it.)
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I must be living in a cocoon. We have two teenage sons, both of whom text. I’ve never heard them or their friends talk in ‘text’. They write it, which saves them keystrokes, but they don’t say it.


19 posted on 02/09/2011 8:56:11 AM PST by Think free or die
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But before you judge, note that former VP candidate Sarah Palin just used that one in a TV interview. And CNN's Anderson Cooper used it on his show the other night.

OMG like when did events on TV change the standards by which we should judge?
20 posted on 02/09/2011 8:56:57 AM PST by posterchild
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L8R Dude..............


21 posted on 02/09/2011 8:57:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
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OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!!!!!!1111one

;)


23 posted on 02/09/2011 8:57:53 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Regulation without representation is tyranny.)
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I thought ILY meant “i like yogurt”.


28 posted on 02/09/2011 9:00:49 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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Back in the late 70’s I was big into CB radio. I would always get a chuckle when some of the people I would meet would talk in the same slang as they did on the air - “Got that, good buddy?” or “that’s a big 10-4.”

I guess txt talking is the successor to that.


32 posted on 02/09/2011 9:05:03 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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By the way, many of you would probably enjoy this Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Correct-Spelling-Punctuation-and-Apostrophe-Use/74280614587


33 posted on 02/09/2011 9:05:10 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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IDK but we’ve had FUBAR far longer than txtg.


35 posted on 02/09/2011 9:07:25 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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AJNTSA!


36 posted on 02/09/2011 9:08:07 AM PST by Fresh Wind (TOTUS knows how to give a speech. Obama knows how to read.)
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Some of us used some of the misnamed “text message” abbreviations 20-30 years ago on email, usenet, and BBS.


40 posted on 02/09/2011 9:10:57 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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I <3 TXT speak.


44 posted on 02/09/2011 9:15:03 AM PST by StrictTime (I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.)
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