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Texting from your Cellphone, Translated

I do know there are other places where you can find this information, but I just wanted to share with you, something that I've received a few days ago from my cellphone service provider. Many people -younger than older, are using text messaging as the quickest and efficient way to communicate. Your son won't pick the phone to answer if he/she realized is a mom who's calling to say something, or to curfew him up. Yet this can be easily solved if they pick their cellphones just to discover mom again wants to know about her date, verbigracie . Her mom might send something like 'king or frog' and that will be enough to think what she's into. Daughter can answer back 'king' and nobody has to feel embarrassed or justify why mom has to be calling at this time! Here's the guide: Basic: YT? -Are you there? < bs > -Big smile 4E - Forever F2F - face-to-face GR8 -Great LMK -Let me know N2K - Need to know U@? -Where are you? Intermedi

Journalists Most Misspelled Words

Great list of more than 60 words no Johnny but journalists misspell according to the experiences of Roy Peter Clark : acknowledgment: (The American Heritage Dictionary also permits acknowledgement, but prefers to drop that extra "e," and so do I.) acquiesce: (The "sce" ending always gives me problems, as in reminisce.) aphrodisiac: (Named after Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love. Would that make an afrodisiac something that gives you a desire to listen to "Earth, Wind and Fire"?) appropriate: (Most words beginning with an "ap" are followed by another p; so if you've got to guess, go with app ...) camaraderie: (I don't understand how we get from "comrade" to this vowely abstraction, but I learned how to spell it by following a simple consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel pattern.) carcass: (I can now spell any word that ends with -ass.) Caribbean: (You'll have to look up exotic place names, except for Lake Titicaca, of