November 25, 2009
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Breaking the Texting Code
I was just reading an article that was designed to help parents understand what their children were texting.
As I was looking at the text codes I was noticing that even though I knew some of them that most of them never show up in my IM conversations. It leads me to believe that my friends are not very exciting texters or IMers. Here is the link: Link
Here are the codes that parents are instructed to pay special attention to:
1 8 Oral sex
2 PAW Parents Watching
3 143 I love you
4 182 I hate you
5 KPC Keeping Parents Clueless
6 LMIRL Lets meet in real life
7 420 Marijuana
8 ADR Address
9 ASL Age/Sex/Location
10 Banana Penis
How many of the codes have you actually had in a text or IM conversation?
Comments (106)
2, 143 and 420.
None of these? Lol I straight up say it if I’m talking to someone about sex.
None, save for the standard stuff like “LOL” “BRB” etc.
hahahaha “banana”
YSRB
None? When I was 14 (omg, have we really had IM for that long?) I think I may have used ASL a few times. None of the others.
I only know 420 and ASL. I guess I’m a boring texter.
I am pleased to say, none. I remember this list. Nice banana. Firm.
i’ve only ever seen ASL.
where do they come up w/ the rest of these things
182 – that one could be sexy
seriously
Instead of PAW, we would use POS (parent over shoulder).
um i dont use code. its dumb. say what you want to say. if you’re youg enough to have your parents eatch what you’re texting, maybe you should be texting about that stuff.
->8 equals anal sex
i have never used any of these codes. they seem really stupid. i will stick with LOL.
420, ASL
8==D – -
I didn’t know people actually did that stuff.
I’ve only ever used ASL
none of my friends ever use those, we come up with our own haha.
lol numbers mean stuff too? i feel outdated >.<
@rhiannonator - lol. Don’t you mean: “8==D~~~” ?
Okay… I don’t understand how 143 == I love you. o_O …
lmao no one uses most of those, that’s just ridiculous. but when i was younger me and my friends used “POS” meaning “parent over shoulder”
@naguyin - yes, exactly. Mine was a masturbation orgasm, yours was from sex.
I bet you don’t know what “ovr9000″ means in a texting convo.
Oh, and 80085.
@rhiannonator - I guess that’s supposed to be an asian guy, right?
none. then again i AM 24.
None of those. When I want to say penis, I say penis. Or weiner, but that’s a whole different story.
@rhiannonator - I lol’d.
@rhiannonator - haha. Learn something new everyday.
@Dare2BDiferentt - is 80085 boobs?!
8008135!!
143
I’ve only ever used “143″ and that was with my dad, before it was cool.
I’ve had other people IM me asl, but I always thought it was rude. It’s not like you’re reading the personal ads, you know?
Here’s my naivete out there for everyone to see… How in the heck does the first one mean oral sex?!
@naguyin - 143 stands for the number of letters used in each word. I’m not sure how that translates to 182 being “I hate you” though…
I’ve used asl
You seem to have focused on the banana (i.e., penis.) I wonder why.
@TheMarriedFreshman - 8 sounds like hate is all I understand.
1 = I, 8 = hate, 2 = not a clue how this is “you”. I need to stop being so literal .. or grammatical. lol
I knew two, 143 and ASL.
wow, how outdated.
None. XD I knew what “ASL” meant before I read it though.
hehe, 1337
o.O
I’m really out of the loop on this one haha. of course, I know 420
You forgot – TTC – TheTheologiansCafe. All the kids are using it.
WILD! “I love you” sounds so much more romantic than 143 – I wonder where that even came from!
I don’t know any of them.
@saintvi - me either. like you, I do appreciate a firm banana.
.. i only heard of : 143 420 asl LOL
I’ve never had any of those come up in an IM conversation . . .
lol i only know three of those.
xo
My friends have a different code for PAW but I forget it.
I think I’ve only had ASL, banana has probably slipped up a few times too…
Erm, none of them. I’m perfectly capable of saying “penis” or “I love you”…
ive never used any of those!
in middle school it was the “cool thing” to write 143 in permanent marker on your hands, but that’s about it.
ive seen those on lists too, ive only used asl and I know if people mention 420 they are talking about weed. the others seem too secretive for everyone to undersand, id rather just tell them i love you then writing 143
#4, 7, and 9 for me
well this gives a whole new meaning to bananaphone.
i have to admiittt….
all of them.. and 100 more.
What the hell?
I’ve only ever used 420.
we MIRL ….Happy Thanksgiving and Birthday Dan…I love ya!!
none.
i only know ASL. man, am i so out of it.
i have heard 143 = i love you before, but i really don’t understand where that came from!
nobody i know ever uses any of these.
I have seen three of these. 143, PAW, and ASL.
TPC!
None. Not even back when I was 14, when I first started using the computer and IMing with people. I’ve always just spelled everything out, and so did my friends for the most part. :p
I have seen these codes on websites, though, that are meant to educate people on what their kids are talking about with their friends. I’ve just never seen them in actual use, as far as I remember. :p
I just knew ASL but I’ve never used it. I stick with lol and ttyl.
@naguyin -
I=1love=4you=3
all but the parent related ones have shown up in my IM/text convos
color me textually active.
only ASL
none
None
I’m a pathetic texter it seems lol
ASL is the only one that I’ve actually used.
I’ve heard of about half of these of these though. Just never used them.
lol none because I refuse to write in text lingo unless it can’t fit in the text and I don’t feel like sending another text since Verizon is whack like that.
I know my parents are nosey so I lock my phone.
I don’t get the 143
I only know 143 and ASL from middle school. I don’t even shorten words when I text.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope you have a great Thanksgiving as well!
I forgot to give you a mini
8 is for ‘bye’. Simple as that. Nothing sexual.
well well now I know a few more…I knew about 3 of them up there…thank you for the education…and by the by
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Smile
ASL is like… the only one I’ve ever used before. WEIRD.
btw- happy birthday (:
(via editeditooc, not this site.)
LOL? Wtf, who uses those.
The only one I’ve ever used is ASL, but never in texting.
The others are a mystery to me.
i have only used and heard of #9
I think everyone knows 420. Me personally… I must be boring. I never use these codes either. Though I might have to start using Banana just for fun.
Happy Birthday!
None… l’m a parent
None, I have never ever sent out or a recieve a text message, even though I had my phone about three months it just set there doing nothing.
ASL, and that’s pretty much in. Ridiculous.
a few of those I’ve never heard.
I know 143, and asl, but that’s BEEN around.
also, 420 isn’t “code”
if kids are smart they make their own code words..
Just ASL and 420
yeah, most of these are pretty obscure to me as well. I have no idea where the I love you/hate you ones came from…
none.
@.@ I’ve never had any of these…
I’ve never used any of them, and don’t know anyone who uses the vast majority of them.
I have used 1 of those. 10 years ago ASL was common in my IM conversations. Now if I use ASL in a IM conversation or on a social networking site, I am not asking for your age/sex/location. I am referring to the American Sign Language course I am currently taking.
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Haha! 420 is as old as the hills. You can see it in SO many movies.
P The only code I’ve ever used is 143, but never actually received any codes.
“Banana” has too many letters and is too close to the signified to be used like that.
Kids are dumb. haha
I text all the time, and im 16 years old and the only one of those codes I’ve ever heard of is ASL
none of these… i’ve never so much have seen any of these!
I’m 18 and I know only a few of those. Embarassing.
I’ve only used ASL. The rest are new.
If your parents are older than 30, they’re going to know what 420 means.
…none. I type out full words.
ASL, ADR, LMIRL. But the ones me and my friends usually use are “Lol, lmao, rofl, pmsl, fgs, gs, ffs, fs, fsr, icr, idk, dk, ily, ilysfm, ilysm, ly, ilu, ilusfm, ,ilusm, lu, ihy, ihysfm, ihysm, hy, ihu, ihusm, ihusfm, dwt, cba, cbb, cbf, nvm, dm, wth, wtfh, wtf, brb, g2g, cyl, ttyl, syt, sys, bff, bf, bma, bm, bmaaf, ff, dbd, yprs, yrms, lym, lysm..” and oh so many more. Some of them we make up, haha, others we don’t.
OMG! I girlfriend told me she just “8″, and I thought it meant she just ate, now I know it means she gave some guy head! We’re over!
None.
Maybe ADR… when a friend I had worked with needed me to give them my address to use me as a reference. I can’t recall if they abreviated or not.
I used to see ASL expressed as A/S/L, back in like 2000, when I was a kid. It meant that the dude IMing me was a pedophile, LOL. And yes, I use standard IRL, LOL, LMAO, BRB, and IDK…only to save space on the text though. I know of 420 being used (it’s listed as such on craigslist, too), but I don’t use it (marijuana or code). Otherwise, I say what I mean.
no, but atleast they tried