Textonyms
Posted by Ron Coleman on February 5, 2008
It may look like gobbledegook, but the most streetwise of teenagers would have no trouble translating and responding to it in kind.A new language is being developed by cell phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets.
Key words are replaced by the first alternative that comes up on a mobile phone using predictive text — changing “cool” into “book,” “awake” into “cycle,” “beer” into “adds,” “pub” into “sub” and “barmaid” into “carnage.”
The new code of youth, I guess.
Jack said
The Syntext of It All
Each term within encoded youth
Come to times newer to rise gives
Displayed like paragrams of truth
Some to sport at played or, wise lived,
New words through older wyrds are known
Age the upon turned generations by
And when they speak, by speech are sewn
Sage the discontent to variants sly,
Yet these gilded years yield nothing new
First not had eras former that,
The fashion is but different hewn
Worst not yet and, yet greater no.
Ara said
lulz
Fiar said
So what does “Get off my lawn” become? Crap. I just tried it and it was “get off my lawn.”