LOL cats are everywhere. One wound up on J’s blog. As I understand this lol syntax, his cat is in his books stealing his words. I am not sure of this as I have never sent a text message in my life and do not even know how it is done or why they use the silly misspellings. I am not sure what LOL means. (Left out losers? Lots of limericks? Lost in Lichtenstein? Long on liberty? Limp over legs?).
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My cat’s famous!
LOL means laughing out loud. I’m not really sure if I got the text syntax right…I still use proper grammar and language in my texts…
J’s got it right. LOL means laughing out loud. Variations on this are:
LMAO: “Laughing my ass off”
ROTFL: “Rolling on the floor laughing”
Among others.
Text messaging is a laborius and tedious process on a cell phone. If you want to type a message you have to touch each key once, twice, three times. For example, “Hi Keith how are you”
the letter H is on the ghk prefex. So you touch the ghk prefex twice to get H and so on. It reads out on your screen as you “type”. K would be three touches. Everything is one, two, three, touches of a prefix key to send hit the green phone thingy. Caps periods etc are on another screen you can navigate in and out of. It costs 15 cents a text message using my cheep pay and talk Telus phone I paid $50 bucks for last month.Each phone has template text Macros, so you can sellect one of those. “Call me”, that type of thing. Some places of employment won’t let you have a cell phone on hand and if your caught using one, your suspended let go or what ever. Most phones have abuilt in vibrating “feature” so you can feel it ringing no one else can hear. You can receive text the same way. Some cases web pages blogs etc. Like on a Blackberry. Very popular amongst the bussiness crowd developed by Research in Motion, here in Canada I think. I’ve never used a Blackberry. Telus wants $360 bucks for them and it’s $60/month. They might get XM radio on them soon.
We have 3 main service proiders here in Alberta, Telus, Rogers and Bell. Telus is the largest. Telus used to be just the phone company but since the convergence model has taken over (phone/tv/internet in one pacakge)it’s second only to Shaw cable. My ISP is Shaw cable. They offer a full service convergence model and have been ahead of Telus for a number of years. Telus has just got into the HDTV/convergence model as of a year ago. Telus uses DSL, Shaw uses cable. About the same depending who you talk to.
For unlimited evenings and weekends (no long d) it costs us $30/month. For an extra $5 we get an extra 100 minutes/month of paid talk time that can be used any time of day. Plus I get to carry the phone around and annoy people when it rings at work :-) Please don;t have your cell phone on (unless in vibrate mode)in a theter. Nothing worse then some jerks phone going off beside you as your watch Star Wars.
Oops, sorrry for rambling