拇指一族的短信世界

相信作为80后、90后的一员，你肯定曾经、或者至今仍是一位短信狂人。无论何时何地，你都可能拿起手机发送短信。遥远的祝福、说不出口的道歉、轻轻一声问候、一则笑话趣事……这一切，只需通过拇指轻轻滑动便能越洋过海。痴迷短信的利弊仍待商榷，但不能否认的是，现在，连老爸老妈也拿起手机按个不停了，

咔咔~生活大变了啊！外国青少年更是把短信功力发挥到极至，一起来感受一下吧。

听力小提示：本文原声材料采访的学生较多，为避免混乱，受访男生均以Student M代替，女生则为Student F；另外，受访者用词口语化，语速较快，只适合作泛听练习。

LOL注1 , P911, AYS. Don’t know those abbreviations[缩写]? Then you’re probably not a teenager with extra strong thumbs that come with an addiction[上瘾] to text messaging. So, here are some students from Chicago’s Curie High School Youth Radio Project to take you into the world of texting, RN and, by the way, that means “right now.”

Repeorter: “What at注2”… [What’s]注3 you doin’?

Student M: LOL, guess ur注4 sleeping.

Student F: I like your shirt.

Student F: I’m bored.

Student M: What we should be doin’ is…

Student F: Our work for the project.

Student M: What are we actually doing?

Student F: Texting about parties.

Student M: I think it’s because we like to be in communication all the time with other people, like, we like the interaction[互动].

Student F: …And when you’re at school you get less bored.

Student M: Okay, this one. It says “laugh out loud, where you at?” and it’s a friend in, they’re in the lunch room with me. It’s kinda like we just joke around

sometimes.

Student F: I either text my mom and ask her if she’s

comin’ to pick me up, or I text my boyfriend ask him what colour is he wearing to school tomorrow…

Student F: In one classroom with 30 kids 30 students

I think at least a good 90% text.

Expert: Do you think the teacher knows you’re texting?

Student F: No. It’s very funny sometimes, though. Because we’re, like, texting right in front of her. Like, I can’t believe she doesn’t hear the clicking of the buttons, and when it vibrates[（使）振动], when we receive a new message, it’s like, the whole classroom hears it except her.

Teacher: They think they’re very sly[狡猾的], but the window

the cell phone window is illuminating[发光].

Student F: I just really look back at elementary school compared to high school. You know, I still remember passing notes with my friends and, you know, being careful that you couldn’t hear the paper crinkle[起皱] or that, you know, the teacher would see you and catch you and then read the note out loud and…

Student F: You jus’ put your book back on top of the desk…and you start texting or…

Student M: …Like, hiding it under the notebooks…

Student F: In my seventh period class I always text with one of my friends and at one time the teacher, she…caught us an’ she took away my phone, but I asked for it after class so she gave it back to me; she told me not to do it again, but I kept on doing it anyway.

Student F: ’Cause I got “unlimited” so I [will] be

texting all day.

Student M: You think I can borrow $20, please? I promise to get it back to you ASAP.

Reporter: What’s… Are you kidding?

Student M: (laughs) LOL.

Expert: It’s destroying two things: the ability to speak and these stupid abbreviations;

people have bad enough grammar in English as it is without finding new ways to make it worse.

Student M: OMG.

Student F: Where R U?

Expert: The best way to

communicate with people is talk. I’m saying, just, “Pick up the phone and just call me.”

Student F: Nah, I’ll just text.

LOL. That piece was produced by the students of Chicago’s Curie High School Youth Radio Project.

LOL，P911，AYS。你不认识这些缩写吗？那么你大概不是一位拥有超强拇指的青少年――他们可是迷恋发送短信的拇指一族。RN，就让几位来自“芝加哥市居里高级中学青年广播项目”的学生带领我们进入短信的世界吧――顺带说一句，“RN”指的是“现在”哦。

记者：“在干啥”……你们在做什么？

男学生：大笑，我猜你正在睡觉。

女学生：我喜欢你的衬衫。

女学生：我正无聊着呢。

男学生：我们现在应该做的是……

女学生：关于项目的工作。

男学生：其实我们正在做的事情是？

女学生：发送关于派对的短信。

男学生：我想这是因为我们喜欢每时每刻都能与其他人保持联系，我们喜欢这种互动方式。

女学生：……这样上学就没这么无聊了。

男学生：好的，这个。它说：“大笑，你在干什么？”这是一个朋友发过来

的……他们和我都在午餐室里。这就好比有时我们喜欢四处开玩笑一样。

女学生：我会发短信给妈妈，问她会不会来接我回家；或者发短信给男朋友，问他明天穿什么颜色的衣服上学……

女学生：在一个有30个孩子――30个学生――的班里，我想至少有多达90%的学生会发短信。

专家：你认为老师知道你们在编写短信吗？

女学生：我想她不知道。有时这会让人觉得很有趣。因为我们，我们就好像是在她的眼皮底下发短信。我不相信她没有听到我们按动手机的声音。当手机震动――我们接收到新短信时，事实上，整间教室的人都听见了，唯独她例外。

老师：他们以为自己能瞒天过海，然而屏幕――手机的屏幕是会发光的。

女学生：我回想起自己的小学时代，与现在的高中生活对比起来。你知道，我还记得和朋友们传纸条，你知道，你得小心翼翼地，不能让人听见折纸的声音，不然，你知道，老师会发现你的小动作，把你逮个正着，然后大声读出纸条的内容……

女学生：你只需把书本放在手机上面……开始编写短信，或者……

男学生：……藏在笔记本下面……

女学生：上到第七节课时，我总会和某个朋友发短信。有一次，老师……她逮着我们了，没收了我的手机，不过课后我去向她要回来，于是她把手机还我，叮嘱我不能再犯，可我终究没有理会，继续这种行为。

女学生：因为我办理了“不限量（短信）套餐”，所以一整天都在发短信。

男学生：你觉得我能向你借20美元吗？我保证尽快还你。

记者：什么……你在开玩笑吧？

男学生：（笑）大笑。

专家：这种情况将会毁灭以下两种事物：一是说话的能力，二是这些无聊透顶的缩略语。即使没有新的方式来恶化情况，人们的英语语法也已经糟糕得不能再糟了。

男学生：噢，天啊。

女学生：你在哪儿？

专家：人与人之间最好的交流方式是谈话。我是说：“只管拿起话筒，给我打电话吧。”

女学生：不，我宁愿发短信。

大笑。本材料由“芝加哥市居里高级中学青年广播项目”的学生制作。

注1：文中出现的缩略语全写依次为：

LOL Laugh Out Loud

P911 Parent Alert

AYS Are You Serious?

ASAP As Soon As Possible

OMG Oh, My God

R U Are You

注2：“what at”及下文的“what you at”均是口语化的表达，意思是“你正在干什么”。

注3：此处为说话者口误，正确应为：what are。

注4：ur，口语化表达，即you’re。

相关链接:短信缩写简明词典

Steve Nash

Also know as AKA

Are you OK RUOK?

Are R

Ate 8

Be B

Before B4

Be seeing you BCNU

Best friend forever BFF

Be right back BRB

By the way BTW

Cutie QT

Date D8

Dinner DNR

Easy EZ

Eh? A?

Excellent XLNT

Fate F8

Frequently asked question FAQ

For 4

For your information FYI

Great GR8

Got to go GTG

I don’t know IDK

Late L8

Later L8R

Lots of love/laughs Lol

Love LUV

Mate M8

Please PLS

Please call me PCM

Queue/cue Q

Rate R8

Rolling on the floor laughing ROTFL

See/sea C

Sealed with a loving kiss SWALK

See you later CU L8R

Speak SPK

Stupid person’s advertisement SPAM

Talk to you later TTYL

Tea T

Thanks THX

Thank you THNQ

To/too 2

To be 2B

Today 2DAY

Tomorrow 2MORO

Want to WAN2

What WOT

Work WRK

Why Y

You U

Happy/Smiley - :-)

Angry - :-||

Very happy - :-))

Confused - %-)

Tongue tied - :-&

Sad - :-(

Saintly - O:-)

Laughing - :-D

Crying - :’-(

Surprised/shocked - :-O

Screaming - :-@

Kiss - :-*

Pig - :@)

Clown - *:-)

Wink - ;-)

以上列出的是部分最常用的英文短信缩写及表情符号。当然，你可以自己为这本“词典”补充更多内容哦。缩写使用贵精不贵多，合理的比例才能省力又省心！

Okay. Now it’s test time. 学了这么多缩写，是该测试自己掌握多少了。请看题：

“Y didn’t I C U 2DAY? R U OK? Having

DNR with the girls 2MORO. PLZ join us. IDK where. I will tell U L8R. OK, GTG. PCM!”

Answers: Why didn’t I see you today? Are you Okay? Having dinner with the girls tomorrow. Please join us. I don’t know where. I will tell you later. Okay, got to go. Please call me!