By Chris Scott Barr
In some ways I feel bad for parents these days. Sure, as kids we all had our own slang that our parents didn’t always understand, but that’s nothing compared to what is used for texting. To the older generation it can read like a foreign language. Well LG feels the pain of these parents, and has created a translator.
The DTXTR is a simple little web app that lets you enter “teen text” and click a button for a translation. I suppose this is a decent idea, as some parents might be confused by what their kids are saying. But honestly, I wonder how many people will actually bother with it. I mean if a parent isn’t savvy enough to decipher the messages that their kids are sending, are they really going to bother going to a website to figure it out? If I were a kid and sent my parents something that they couldn’t understand, they’d just ground me until I learned how to spell properly.
[ DTXTR ] VIA [ TechCrunch ]
“they’d just ground me until I learned how to spell properly.”
HAA! I would do that too.
Of course, that's not really an excuse to prevent you from learning more about your kids' “culture”…
“they’d just ground me until I learned how to spell properly.”
HAA! I would do that too.
Of course, that's not really an excuse to prevent you from learning more about your kids' “culture”…