This is a weird message; let us decipher this.

of course you can decipher that, my friend, because that is how some of our fellow countrymen send their text messages to others, right? the 8's is ITS, and when i read the text, i always read that as EIGHTS.

@ridingbet he he, that's peanut for us, easy to decipher

@ilocosboy that is true, kabsat. we Pinoys are resilient as well. anything goes, and we can make our own vocabulary even.

@LadyDuck It's already in English. '8' is pronounced 'eight'/'ate'/&c. so 'gr8' should be read as 'great', '2day' should be read as 'today' and so on. The '8's' at the beginning is stretching it a bit but means 'It's'. Other common abbreviations are 'd' for 'th', 'y' for 'igh' and using one vowel in place of two ('u' for 'oo', 'ou' and also for 'you') and missing out vowels altogether. The full message therefore reads: " It’s a great day today, and the sun is shining brightly. Hope you are all in good health. I and you, wonderful people, make this site a good place to interact, because we earn from the active participation.” The reason for "text speak" is that SMS messages can (or, rather, could) only be 160 characters long, so using such 'shorthand' meant you could send longer messages. Of course, there's no need (or any place) for that sort of abbreviation here!

@owlwings Do you think that adding an English translation would be a better way to avoid to see the discussion deleted? I have no clue what this phrase means.

no, i have not read a discussion with these kinds of abbreviations or distortion of English words, but there are some who inject some words in their discussions. i write my discussion with complete words, i just read some that brought me into writing this post.

right on that. some people do text those words when the characters allowed for a pero is nearing and they have not yet texted their reason for texting.

@ridingbet none so far or I over saw it because I could understand it, it skpped my brain lol

yes, but have you encountered some discussions using words like UR, I M, and others too?

@louievill okay. i wonder as what @owlwings said, if we see a discussion posting this kind of words, can we report it to the admin? how if just one or a few words are in jejemon style?

well, we can just read it and that is already what it means.

you are welcome. i made this discussion because i read one with a jejemon word.

@ridingbet I have a friend on fb, I read it and still don't know what I read.

true to that. it makes my head spin when i utter the word as what is posted.

@popciclecold hahaha! that is usually the roblem with jejemon words. they are short cuts and when spoken, it is the actual word, like the LYK, or the 8s which is read ITS.

@ridingbet yeah, I've had my share of text scams.

me too. i often receive these kinds of text messages in any of my 3 mobile numbers, and one more thing, these messages are even scamming, like "mis q na kau" (i miss you all).

@ridingbet very. What is wrong with people. it takes more effort ans sometimes more letters to talk wrong than it does to talk right.

hahah! even with our national language, my friend, we read some text messages like these jejemon words.yes, it is so annoying because our tongue and brain are twisted.

@ridingbet haha I agree to this. I came across some posts and preferred not to answer them.

we have to admit it, that there are some members of this site who shorten their English words.

@ridingbet The shortcut of English words you had described, it was termed as netspeak words.

@Shavkat hmmm, really? i thought it is the jejemon slang way of how Filipinos communicate.

you mean, in this site?

@ridingbet No, I cannot remember I saw one because I would have surely reported.

i believe you saw one already my friend, and one word is even in the title of the discussion.

i still read some words using this style of communication; thankfully though, they are not making a discussion out of it.

my sister uses that when she sends text to me. the 'ko' is 'q' to her, so when i read her text, i read it is Q not KO.

@ridingbet I was under the impression that you copied that jejemon paragraph from elsewhere here in MyLot - that someone actually posted that as a discussion. But I understand it now as something you wrote yourself specifically for your discussion. In that case, apologies if I was too harsh in pointing out the perceived grammatical error. Believe it or not, I am usually more forgiving (and will probably ignore) other such errors if the rest of the paragraph or post was written in proper English, or at the very least, if I feel that the writer did their best in trying to write properly. However, I was looking at that jejemon paragraph and looked at it as a post in itself (as I said, I thought someone actually wrote that as a discussion and you copied it). Therefore, I nitpicked at it and looked for every little thing that's wrong that I can find about it. Think of it as me trying to build a case against mr. jejemon paragraph, because I really feel strongly against that kind of writing. As I said, it is forgivable in limited text messages, and perhaps twitter. But never, never in a place like MyLot where you can write as long as you would need. Peace!

i am just making a statement of jejemon words here, and i don't consider making correct grammar here. if you find my statement full of errors, then by all means, do the corrections.

i believe the native English speakers, generally, complete the words in their discussions. some users use the jejemon sometimes.

right, and we have to admit it, that some users use these words here.