Texting slang - jk, idk, ttyl, cya, tmi, np, k

Hey guys, this is Alex. Thanks for clicking and welcome to this lesson on text language.

You can find another lesson on text language on www.engvid.com which was done by Ronnie.

In this lesson, I will teach you some more expressions and more things you can text and

type whether you're using message boards, if you're doing online internet gaming, if

you're just texting your friends. You can use these text messages and this text language

to enhance your communication or just, you know, so you can understand what other people

are saying. Okay, so today I'm going to teach you seven different short forms in text language.

So the first one here is JK. Now, JK simply means just kidding. So if you're telling a

joke and if you're trying to be serious and your friend is going to think, "Well, why

is he telling me this?" You can just say, "JK, just kidding. It's a joke. I'm not really

serious." Okay? So JK, just kidding. Okay, the second one is TTYL. Normally, you can

use this in a text conversation with your friend or a messenger program. If you're ending

the conversation, if it's almost finished, you know, you can say, "Bye. See you later."

or "Talk to you later." So TTYL means talk to you later. So you can use this at the end

of a conversation. I use this one all the time, especially if I'm on the bus and maybe

I'm chatting with a friend on my phone, and if the bus arrives at the stop, I have to

go really quickly. I don't have time to type out, "Talk to you later," all the time. So

just got to go, TTYL, talk to you later. Okay? The next one, see ya, it sounds like see you,

right? So this is see you or see you later. Similar to talk to you later, you can use

it when you're ending a conversation, usually in a text conversation or a messenger conversation.

Okay, the next one, NP. Now, if something does not cause any problems or if you give

good advice to someone and they say, "Thank you," or if someone says, "Thank you for anything

that you have done," over text or in a message board, something like that, you can say, "No

problem." So NP means no problem. Okay, next one is IDK. If you are not sure about something

and your friend asks you a question, but you're not sure about the answer, you can say, "I

don't know." Okay, so IDK literally translates to, "I don't know." Very simple. Okay, this

one, TMI, is very, very commonly used, especially if you're a teenager, I guess. And if your

friend is giving you details about some part of their life and you think that the information

they give you is not your business or that the information is too graphic or too much,

TMI means, "Whoa, too much information." Too much information. So this means that you don't

want them to tell you what they told you because it makes you feel uncomfortable or maybe you

feel it's not your business. Okay, so TMI means, "Whoa, stop. Too much information."

Okay, and finally, K. Simply, "Okay." Okay, so again, sometimes you don't feel like typing

out O-K-A-Y on your phone, so you can just type K-T-T-Y-L. Talk to you later. Okay, guys,

so just a reminder, JK, "Just kidding." T-T-Y-L, "Talk to you later." C-U-N-P, "No problem."

IDK, "I don't know." TMI, "Too much information." N-K, "Okay." Now, again, if you want to check

out more text language, more text speak, you can check out the video that is linked to

this one on www.engvid.com. And if you want to test your understanding of these text speak

terms, you can check out the quiz on www.engvid.com. Take care, guys.