text lingo

Having a hard time understanding all of the abbreviations in your text messages? We have compiled the most extensive database of text lingo imaginable! Did you know texting originated in 1992 when when a test engineer from Sema Group sent "Merry Christmas" from his personal computer to the phone of Richard Jarvis? As sending texts over phones gained in popularity, text lingo developed to allow people to say more in the small amount of space that texting allowed. The shortening of words in texts messages; either by removing letters, spelling phonetically, or abbreviating multiple words into one acronym is rapidly making text speak one of the fastest new 'languages' used in the world, with over 85% of people in the United States texting on a daily basis alone! Some common used text lingos are: LOL (laughing out loud), IC (I see), and u2 (you, too).