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Parents, teach your children. I despise getting text messages with truncated language. No one needs to conserve data these days. Terms like “UR”, B4, annoy me. When I text I use grammar and spelling as well as I can. It does annoy my daughter, but she is used to it.

I despise getting text messages with truncated language. No one needs to conserve data these days. Terms like “UR”, B4, annoy me. When I text I use grammar and spelling as well as I can. It does annoy my daughter, but she is used to it.

Yup, I do the same thing. I might have used some shortcuts with my first couple phones using a T9 keyboard, but nowadays everything is proper English and correct grammar, unless I get a typo or autocorrect I don't catch before sending. My phone likes to always swap "we'll" and "well" whenever I use either one. Annoying.

One of my favorite things to do is respond with nonsense to text shortcuts. Someone says lol or l8r, I'll reply with mjm or d9y or such. Or pretend I don't know what the abbreviation means, although some of the time I actually don't.