{"id":5539,"date":"2021-08-23T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T20:45:58","slug":"looking-back-texting-lingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2021\/08\/23\/looking-back-texting-lingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back \u2013 texting lingo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is Some <\/span>Common <\/span>
\nTexting Lingo<\/span><\/p>\n

<3 = love
\n2day = today
\n2 = to
\n4 = for
\nb4 = before
\nbc = because
\nbffl = best friend for life
\nbrb = be right back
\ng2g = got to go
\nh8r = hater
\njk = just kidding
\nl8r = later
\nlol = laugh out loud
\nomg = oh my gosh
\nr = are
\nrofl = roll on floor laughing
\nsrsly = seriously
\ntmrw = tomorrow
\nttyl = talk to you later
\nu = you
\nw\/ = with
\nw\/o = without<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"black<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Did u txt ur bffl w\/lingo back in 2011? Missouri Western students did, and \u201c… it started infesting student assignments …\u201d an article from the 2011 Griffon Yearbook claims. \u201cGetting papers done faster by using language shortcuts was the favorite \u2026\u201d side effect of this lingo, it added. While we\u2019re not sure if shortcuts are still finding their way into formal essays, we\u2019re sure the students have embraced an entirely new list of common texting lingo, and that they would srsly rofl at the lingo used only a decade ago!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}