New Mobile Phone Lingo for Text Message Addicts - Textonyms
by Darla Mack
RU ready 4 a nu lingo?
Just when we thought we were mastering the art of using predictive text a new messaging lingo has arrived. “Textonyms”.
Via Reuters:
A new language is being developed by mobile phone-addicted kids based on the predictive text of their treasured handsets.
Key words are replaced by the first alternative that comes up on a mobile phone using predictive text — changing “cool” into “book”, “awake” into “cycle”, “beer” into adds”, “pub” into “sub” and “barmaid” into “carnage”.
The replacement words — technically paragrams, but commonly known as textonyms, adaptonyms or cellodromes — are becoming part of regular teen banter.
So I guess it seems that we should no longer get frustrated when our predictive text pops up with the first word in its memory, which in many cases isn’t the word that we intended to use. 
via: Textually.org
