Use teen lingo

September 22, 2009 06:59 pm | Updated December 16, 2016 07:28 pm IST

For Canvas : A teenager hooked on to chat mode on the Internet.
Photo : Bijoy Ghosh
Attn : Geetha/ Anjana NICAID:110970291

For Canvas : A teenager hooked on to chat mode on the Internet. Photo : Bijoy Ghosh Attn : Geetha/ Anjana NICAID:110970291

1. First, teens don't spell conventionally. It's not teens. It's teenz. The golden rule: If it's plural, replace the S with the Z. Add how many ever 'z's you want if it's the last letter in the word. Such as boyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, folkzzzzzz, galzzzzzzzz etc. Similarly, if it's a word that begins with C, replace it with K. Kool?

2. Get yourself a crash course in abbreviation. The most important of them all is LOL - laugh out loud. Using LOL during a chat or in a text message indicatez ur kool. You don't have to worry about Upper case or Lower case because most teenz are Case blind. lolzzzzz! If you suspect you've overused it, don't worry, teens don't care about overdose. But just to demonstrate your vocabulary, you could also use ROTFL (rolling on the floor laughing), ROTFLWTIME (rolling on the floor with tears in my eyes) or even make up your own code and spread it.

3. Boycott vowels and if there's a double letter in the word, use just one or replace it with a vowel that sounds more like it. Sample: Look would become luk. Better wud bcum btr, ok? In fact, ok itself is considered a waste of a whole letter since O is understood, rather silent, when teenz say the word. So it's just K.

4. All official or formal sounding words have been purged from teen lingo. So please spelt pl still sounds formal and hence to communicate the kool vibe, please is spelt pliss or plees, love is spelt lou, alright becomes awrite or aite and sorry becomes sowwie. Yes, teens like baby talk... So always start a sentence with Awwwww... and end with kissie wissie or huggie wuggie. You can also end with any number of question or exclamation marks because teens love being dramatic...awwww! so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not all teens use the wrong spelling because they want to save a few letters from being used, some of them use it to illustrate or stress the importance of magnitude of the emotion with which the word is said. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Soooooooooooooooooo Cuuuuuuute!!!!! Huggie Wuggie. Kissie!

5. Teens don't understand nouns. They have one word that refers to all material and abstract nouns - Thingie. And one word to be used as adjective - bling. Watz dat thingie u hd 2 do dis wk? Gimme ur thingie 2day. They have two words when they have to talk about someone - Dude or Babe. Hey luk, dat dude frm da dance thingie v wnt 2 las wk cald. He 'nt wt dat bling babe NE mo. kool noooo?! lolzzzzzz!

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