2007-02-23 06:18:21 · 3 answers · asked by TyGizzle4Shizzle 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Yeah, that's a popular shortcut for texting from an alphanumeric keypad (such as on cell phones), although it goes back a bit more, to the early days of BBS. For hunt and peck typists on a standard QWERTY keyboard, it's easier to find, for example, the single character 8 than the various letter combinations that sound the same. For touch typists, standard spellings are easier. Other uses of numbers for letters are 3 for E, 5 for S, etc. It's a little harder to read, and so it constitutes a sort of secret code, with the social separation factors that are common to all secret codes.
2007-02-23 06:56:09 · answer #1 · answered by Joni DaNerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you mean like gr8 for great?
sum1 - someone
in2 - into
4ward - forward
3sum - threesome
there are actually heaps of these shorthand words which are popular in text messages and emails
2007-02-23 06:24:33 · answer #2 · answered by sydneygal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
math is the oldest form of language and the only universal language there is .CODE
2007-02-23 06:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by deezel09 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋