MDS = Modern Day Shorthand

When the buttons are small, your fingers are mighty and the text are by the character, in comes the modern day short hand. If you are looking to decipher what your kids are really saying in text, or are a wee bit behind and want to secure your spot in with the “cool kids”, check out the Webster dictionary of modern day shorthand: www.shortcell.com.

The site is based out of Norway, so for American users, some of the wording or spelling may seem a bit off, but the site is quite useful overall to get caught up on shorthand slang.

For those who’s IM/Text knowledge begins and ends with u=you, r=are and lol=laugh out loud, here are a few more acronyms to add to your arsenal: AFAIK=as far as I know, DBEYH=don’t believe everything you hear, THYM=thank you very much.

So next time you say B4N (bye for now) and your chat mate asks BBIAB? (be back in a bit?), you won’t have to ask WTHDTIM? (what the heck do these initials mean?) but can wryly reply, B4UKI (be back before you know it).