- OMG. Adults can understand text speak. Even worse, they're embarrassing their children by using it and trying to be trendy, according to a survey reported in the Daily Mirror.
"Many mums and dads now regularly use OMG (Oh my God!) to express surprise or BTW (by the way) to change the subject," said the paper. But internet search site Ask Jeeves, which did the poll, also found young people were fighting back with a new set of abbreviations. "For example, they use H9 to mean 'hate a lot', because it's one worse than the well-known H8," reported the Mirror. "A teenager worried a parent is looking over their shoulder will type P999, meaning parent emergency." Nadia Kelly from the website explained: "As parents learn words, the kids will come up with new ones. There is little worse than a grown-up desperate to look cool to kids." LOL.
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