read na meh

Ok, txt koh poh kau mag malapet na me.

Papunta npoh kme. Saan koh poh bah mllpit?

Ok poh tnX ah!

I’m sure you’ve read, received, or even heard (gasp!) variations of this certain kind of text-speak. I’m most of the time patient, but when you get messages like these in the course of business dealings, I can’t help but get so irritated. I mean, if you were in such a hurry to text, why all the extra Hs? Do you mean to be cute, in the way that you think having lisps when talking is cute? I am even more irritated when I see that Smart commercial that says- Me na Me. Sheesh. Ok fine, maybe I’m not the target market but it doesn’t stop me from seeing them everywhere. And I still don’t get it- is it like, so Me na Me? Waaah. Sorry, I may not text/speak/write perfect English, but cahmon! Pwede naman mag-Tagalog or Cebuano. Spare people the headache and text like you speak. Or. Unless you actually speak with all those extra Hs? Don’t text me nalang, deadma na u.

Still on SMS ranting. I just discovered a nifty trick on my phone. There’s such a thing as Screened Messages, for well, storing texts from people you would rather not hear from. Or from people who actually think that sending a dozen (read: 12!) forwarded messages in a span of 15 minutes would warrant a text back, or think that (here we go again) it’s cute. It is not. It’s called spam, if its email. (So, what do you call spam texting?) I guess if you’ve sent about 58 forwarded messages (who’s counting?) and still you don’t get a reply, maybe you kind of need to ask yourself why? Might be because a) the texts don’t warrant a reply, b) you text at inopportune hours (hours of my whacked-out days one can never guess which times are bad) or c) I just don’t really feel like texting back at all! So yeah, thanks to message screening, I don’t have to read everything you send. Hah. Unfortunately, there’s no option for other anti-ick messages.