Text Message Abbreviations - SMS Dictionary Examples

What are text message abbreviations?

Basically, this is just another expression for sms dictionary, or sms shortcut. These abbreviations are simply the text messaging shortcuts that people use each and every day to make sending sms text messages so much quicker and easier.

Some of the shortcuts below are only used for instant messenger messages, or at the end of a text message to convey the mood of the person sending the text message.

Some of the txt msg shortcuts are good examples of how people shorten words when they send text messages.

So let's take a look at some common text message abbreviations, then.

SMS Text Messaging Abbreviations:

Anything - NTHING
Are you OK - RUOK?
Are - R
Ate - 8
Be - B
Before - B4
Be seeing you - BCNU
Cutie - QT
Date - D8
Dinner - DNR
Easy - EZ
Eh? - A?
Excellent - XLNT
Fate - F8
For - 4
For your information - FYI
Great - GR8
Late - L8
Later - L8R
Lots of love/laughs - Lol
Love - LUV
Mate - M8 
Please - PLS 
Please call me - PCM 
Queue/cue - Q 
Rate - R8 
See/sea - C 
See you later - CU L8R 
Speak - SPK 
Tea - T 
Thanks - THX 
Thank you - THNQ 
To/too - 2 
To be - 2B 
Today - 2DAY 
Tomorrow - 2MORO 
Want to - WAN2 
What - WOT 
Work - WRK 
Why - Y 
You - U 
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Happy/Smiley - :-)
Angry - :-||
Very happy - :-))
Confused - %-)
Tongue tied - :-&
Sad - :-( 
Saintly - O:-)
Laughing - :-D 
Crying - :'-( 
Surprised/shocked - :-O 
Screaming - :-@ 
Kiss - :-* 
Pig - :@) 
Clown - *:-) 
Wink - ;-)

There are more sms shortcuts that could make up a so-called sms dictionary, but the more words you use the less effective the shortcuts are as people stop understanding what you're actually saying.

In this case, a short 'vocabulary' is best so everyone knows what is being said.

Okay. Now it's test time. Let's see if you can understand this sentence made up of some of the text message abbreviations above, then:

If u wan2 use txt msg shortcuts then pls only use the words above. If u dont, ur frnds might get %-) and :-|| with u. And it's much nicer if yr friends :-) or are :-))

Thnq n bcnu.

:-)

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