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Text Message Abbreviations - SMS Dictionary Examples
By Steve Nash
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.
:-)

Steve M Nash is owner of TextMeFree.com, and FreeTextSMS.net - guides to sending free sms online, wherever you live in the world. Learn more about free sms, by subscribing to his free newsletter called The TextMeFree Times, available at http://www.textmefree.com/newsletter.html Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Steve_Nash