I H8 SMS TLK

[limepickle]

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It drove me bonkers! When I moved here I didn't give her my new number. Must have taken her ages too!

[jimbo]

Just curious but what is the max length of an sms message?

120 characters I think.

[PDLM]

160 western characters per message, but most phones/networks can deal with messages up to 480 characters, transmitting (and charging) them as 3 SMSs.

[reinkarnation]

if your using a blackberry its ok to type long msg for sms but if your using just a normal phone, imagine how long it will take to send the full message using all the words. 1 key with 3 letters on it, i would rather call the person then type a long msg on a normal phone.

T9 baby. Its MUCH faster if you know how to spell.

[Crocodile]

What's even more puzzling are people who insist of txt spk when they're sitting in front of a PC, using a full size keyboard.

That is a massive pet peeve of mine.

[octarine]

160 western characters per message, but most phones/networks can deal with messages up to 480 characters, transmitting (and charging) them as 3 SMSs.

And 70 Chinese (well, double-byte) characters. (any single Chinese char in a message will limit the whole message to 70) But Chinese messages rarely get so long, and you can't l33t speak. (someone is bound to tell me that you sure can)

Most modern (last 3 years) handset will support upto 5 messages concatenated.

[jgl]

> That is a massive pet peeve of mine.

It's especially grating when the person guilty of such completely inept writing claims to be an educational professional (I can remember this happening a couple of times on geoexpat).

My usual reaction depends on my energy levels- either not to bother answering questions couched in such language, or to treat such posters with the ridicule they so richly deserve

[Skyhook]

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My usual reaction depends on my energy levels- either not to bother answering questions couched in such language, or to treat such posters with the ridicule they so richly deserve

Ridicule them I say, especially if we can throw rotten fruit at them, in public...

[ricster]

I'm probably showing my age too by saying that I agree. I don't understand when if you've got predictive texting that people still resort to text talk.

[Myrona]

My head hurts when I read Gen Y's txt talk. Back in my day (which was not that long ago ), I think I was the first generation of txters and our language was easier to understand, hardly as irritating and didn't cause a brain aneurysm trying to decipher it... the only annoying thing was the SOS message alert tone they had (the old default nokia sms msg alert tone) - that really pissed my mum off. Nowadays I can't be bothered typing out a message and often I press the wrong button because my fingers are now way too big for the now teeny weeny phones and I end up cancelling, deleting or even sending an incomplete message - now that drives me up the wall!