- Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Warner Books (Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0446610887
- ISBN-13: 978-0446610889
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,939,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
E-mails and mobile phone text messages are rapidly evolving their own language. So this 21st-century answer to shorthand--to the despair of teachers and pedants who fear it will destroy "real" English--has spawned its own dictionary. The Total Txtmsg Dictionary lists over 5,000 abbreviations and acronyms from the unremarkable MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) and SWALK (sealed with a loving kiss) to the witty wackiness of HJAM8 (he's just a mate), FMDIDGAD (frankly my dear I don't give damn) and IHTM (I hate text messages). And that's just the start. The Total Txtmsg dictionary has abbreviations for every realm of life. It can lead you I&O (in and out) of BATNEEC (best available yet techniques not entailing excessive costs) to get your business a CBH (clean bill of health). Or, less commercially, IUDKIDKWD (if you don't know I don't know who does) that IU2LUVUBIAON (I used to love you but it's all over now). So now you're AFU (work it out for yourself!). To anyone new to it, this is a language as dense and esoteric as the most cryptic of codes. But it's spikily creative and it probably works well amongst fluent users. The book also provides a few 'standard' symbols and figures such as using # for number, @ for at and 8 for ate. Most obscure of all, for the uninitiated, are the "emoticons" at the end. (:-) means "good luck with your exams" while **:I* * means, apparently, well done you've stopped smoking. Many of the other examples are more rudely direct. This is an amusing, pocket-sized book, which will help you to appear fluent in the lingo even if you aren't. Given the ever-more-universal need to communicate fast messages in a small space, whether it's to set up a business meeting or a date with an Internet paramour, it's probably going to become almost as generally handy, in a different way, as an old-style comprehensive dictionary of abbreviations. --Susan Elkin
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In this age of world-wide communications, mobile internet access,e-mail and e-business, a new language has developed to make the very most of the new phone and palm top technology. You can now chat, make friends, do on-line research, flirt and fact check, make plans, access the markets and do business wherever you are. This most comprehensive directory of terms, acronyms, abbreviations and definitions ever devised means that you can communicate as fast as the fastest mobile phone or computer will allow. Text messaging and e-mail are cost effective too. Universal terms and specific market definitions are given to enable any business person to use this dictionary in the global marketplace.
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Format:Paperback
the book is all about abreviations acronyms abriviations and loads loads more basicaly anyhting you can shorten to letters that become a word (thats sayable) then it's in this book
although quite easy to understand it could have been easier because if you wish to find out if there is a slang word for a word then you have to look up the first letter of the abriviation not the actual word this makes it harder to understand but you get used to it
in conclusion the book is good for all techno freaks but not good for people who are annoied by the fact that it is hard to find the acronyms and especially i like it because stephen blake was my old teacher ! of whom it is typicall that he found the most humourous and obscure ones cuse hes like that ! in total the book is great but needs to be listed better
although quite easy to understand it could have been easier because if you wish to find out if there is a slang word for a word then you have to look up the first letter of the abriviation not the actual word this makes it harder to understand but you get used to it
in conclusion the book is good for all techno freaks but not good for people who are annoied by the fact that it is hard to find the acronyms and especially i like it because stephen blake was my old teacher ! of whom it is typicall that he found the most humourous and obscure ones cuse hes like that ! in total the book is great but needs to be listed better
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great book for txtmsg dummies
6 Nov 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If do not know about what txtmsg means read this book.
ICBHUTBI
30 Nov 2002
Format:Mass Market Paperback
ICBHUTBI - I can't believe how useless this book is.
Most abbreviations in this book are so obscure that no one would ever know what they mean. They would need a copy of the book, and a lot of spare time, to decipher the garbage you send to them.
Many of the abbreviations are just acronyms for highly technical jargon. For example, FRPI - Flux Reversals Per Inch, or PMO - Perturbational Molecular Orbital.
Others are acronyms for obscure organizations, such as the notorious PLCWTWU - Power Loom Carpet Weavers and Textile Workers Union, SDC - Society of Dyers and Colourists.
Still others are rediculously long "abbreviations" of decidedly uncommon sentences such as PM4BSRIWNMIWMFIJCU2SH&NIGBDB - Pardon me for being rude, it was not me, it was my food. It just came up to say hello, and now it's gone back down below, or RThOsFEtYaOwnOrRUBrknThnIn4Aduk? - Are those feet your own or are you breaking them in for a duck?
As should be obvious by now, the concept that this book could revolutionize the communications industry is laughable at best. Despite what a thoughtful parent might think, it is NOT an appropriate stocking stuffer for "My son the computer wizard", nor for any other segment of the population, for that matter.
Don't waste your money.
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