Text it up

Question

With a teenager in the house, text talk has become part of our household vocabulary. Are there spanish equivalents?

• LOL , laugh out loud , spanish equivalent?
• idk, I don't know, spanish equivalent?
• brb, be right back, spanish equivalent?
• w/e or watevr or wevr, whatever, spanish equivalent?

Feel free to add. Oh, and am I correct in deducing that "jajaja" and "jejeje" that I see on this forum are equivalent to "haha" and "hehe"?

Cool question! :-) - chaparrito, Feb 11, 2010

Thanks. I'm enjoying confusing my daughter with what I've learned so far. :-) - jacob4408, Feb 11, 2010

Answer 1

Acababa de encontrar una lista aqui.

I just found a list of abbreviations here.

that was cool. thx :) - Partho, Feb 11, 2010

Excellent. Thanks. - jacob4408, Feb 11, 2010

Answer 2

xq = porque

• salu2: saludos
• SMS: mensaje corto
• TKM: te quiero mucho (o tqm)
• tas OK?: ¿estás bien?
• TVL: te veo luego
• TKI: tengo que irme
• b: beso
• NLS: no lo sé
• nos: nosotros
• NPH: no puedo hablar
• NT1P: no tengo un peso
• NV: nos vemos
• x fa porfa /: por favor
• q tal?: ¿qué tal?

nice! - juluque, Feb 11, 2010

mg (Mucho gracias) - Partho, Feb 11, 2010

Answer 3

Hey Jacob! What a coincidence that I was reading Issabela's new reference article and I saw that it has Spanish 'texting lingo'. Check it out (it's about half-way down the page):

Various useful Spanish expressions

Answer 4

Yes, "jajaja" is "hahaha" and "jejeje" is "hehehe." The only other one I know in Spanish is that "q" is used for "que."

that is normal writing for hahaha, not a short text talk :( - juluque, Feb 11, 2010

Answer 5

tqm (te quiero mucho) I love you very much.