“How am I even supposed to respond to this?” My friend shows me her phone screen, where her dad has replied to a long, complicated, logistic-filled text message with a simple “Ok 👍.” We’ve all been ...

Texting language has evolved since the early 2000s, when 'LOL' (laughing out loud) or 'OMG' (oh my God) were often used in mobile phone messaging or instant messenger. Fast forward more than two ...

Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn’t writing at all — ...

HOUSTON Text messages between teens can read like a foreign language to their moms and dads. We wanted to know how up-to-speed parents are with text lingo beyond OMG and LOL. More specifically, could ...

IM and chat lingo is shortened for speed since conversations are conducted in real time. If a friend is waiting for a response, you want to type it as quickly as possible. For text messages on mobile ...