{"id":387,"date":"2007-07-18T17:36:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T17:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=387"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:47:37","slug":"filipino_text_slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/filipino_text_slang\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino Text Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the Philippines is literally the text–or txt–capital of the world. More people send messages through their cellphones here than anywhere.
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\nThe P1200 (approx. $27 CAN) used, ubiquitous (Nokia has sold over 1 billion) Nokia 1100 phone I bought from a street vendor in Baguio. Here pictured during a hike overlooking the Banaue rice terraces, the only place I picked up a Globe-provider signal in the whole region–and where I got a txt spam.
\nOne article from 2005<\/a> says there’s about one cell phone for every two people here. That year 250 million texts were sent.
\nI get a good chunk of those on my phone in the form of spam. Everyday. And so now a sampling of some hardcore Tagalog-Engrish-Hybrid Txt Spam Action from the past week:
\n———————–
\n,** mOrN!nGs
\n(\u00f6, ) gEt
\n((“)(“) SwEeTeR
\nwHeN..
\n,**
\n( \u00f6, ) \u00fc tH!nK
\n(“)(“) Of p!P\u00f6L wH\u00f6
\nmKeS \u00fcR
\n,** hEaRt&L!fE
\n( ,\u00f6) bEaUt!f\u00fcL&
\n(“)(“)bLeSt!ThNx
\n2\u00fc&GBY\u00fc!g\u00fcdAM
\nSent:
\n10-July-2007
\n15:10:52
\n———————–
\n———————–
\nsmE
\nppOL
\naSk mE
\nh0w
\nnicE
\n&w0ndrfuL
\nu R,
\ni sEd..
\n“m0r dAn wt u
\nxPctd!”
\naftr
\na
\nfew
\nmOmEnts
\ndEy
\nrquEstd
\nmE
\n2
\ndscRyb
\nu
\ni sEd;
\n“wg nLng..mAinluv p kAu”
\nSent: 10-July-2007
\n17:33:30
\n———————–
\n———————–
\nmsrp
\nmgkrOn
\nng
\nkaibgn..
\nmy
\nkausp
\nlgi..
\nmy
\nksm
\nlgi..
\nmy
\nkrmy
\ns
\niht..
\npro
\nalm m
\nqng anong
\nms msrp?
\npg
\nang
\nkaibgn..
\nay
\nikw..
\nMrming slmt h! \u00fc
\nSent:
\n10-July-2007
\n16:31:56
\n———————–
\n———————–
\nKult
\nSent:
\n10-July-2007
\n13:38:17
\n———————–
\n———————–
\nDkanba mgttxt?ok
\ni tnk i go a head n
\ncngrats my gf
\nkna.bye
\nSent:
\n9-July-2007
\n17:03:49
\n———————–
\nOK I just showed a local some of these text messages and then realized they may in fact all be from someone I know. Or, as my informant tells me, I could have gotten a used SIM and phone number. Or, most likely, these are semi-spams that make the rounds on the phones here when people forward them to 10 of their friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the Philippines is literally the text–or txt–capital of the world. More people send messages through their cellphones here than anywhere. The P1200 (approx. $27 CAN) used, ubiquitous (Nokia has sold over 1 billion) Nokia 1100 phone I bought from a street vendor in Baguio. Here pictured during a hike overlooking the Banaue rice terraces, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,15,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}