Talk More Like a 12 Year-Old…


teen lingo File this under “just for fun”: A conversation between two teenagers who are instant messaging or texting can be impossible to follow if you’re not familiar with their “Lingo.” Some of you probably even use this Lingo which seems to have come about when instant messengers like AOL’s launched. The children and teenagers of the current generation have grown up with it and are better than anybody at talking in their “own language.” If by chance you’re wanting to sound more like a 12 year old, use this translator  to take what you write and instantly make it sound like it came from the mouth of a child. While this translator throws in a bunch of “LOL’s” and exclamation points, it does a good job of picking out the phrases which are commonly used as an acronym like “I gottta go” translates to G2G.

Here’s an example of a translation:

I entered the following text:

“Hey, what’s up? What are you doing tonight? Not too much is going on here, I’m just chilling while I wait for Prison Break to come on.”

It translated the text to this:

H3Y WUT UP?!!!! WUT R U DONG 2NIGHT??!??!? OMG LOL NOT 2 MUCH SI GONG ON H3RA IMM JUST CHILNG WHIEL I WATE FOR PRISON BRAAK 2 COMA ON!11!!!11! WTF LOL

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I entered the following text:

“You there? Just to let you know, I gotta go so I’ll talk to you later.”

It translated the text to this:

U THERE?????! WTF LOL JUST 2 L3T U KNOW I G2G SO IL TOK 2 U L8R!11!11!11 OMG WTF LOL

The English-to-12-Year-old-AOLer Translator

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January 2nd, 2008 Written by
  1. Toby In NYJanuary 2, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    I am always amused when the text shorthand language is somehow labelled as the language of “kids”. FYI.. Geezers like me were using terms like “LOL”, “ROFL” and “RTFM” in 1992 on AOL and Compuserve.

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  2. GoogleJanuary 2, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Wow, I don’t know a lot of people who always use caps….

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  3. netster007xJanuary 2, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    It’s a pretty amusing site. I think the whole all caps thing is a little odd.

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  4. AmakJanuary 2, 2008 at 5:56 pm

    Oh god…it was bad enough seeing people type like that, but now there is a translator? Run for the hills!

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  5. KylesCoveJanuary 2, 2008 at 7:10 pm

    I’ve used this a few times at work when I e-mail young people. It has come in handy.

    People do actually talk like that. K THX

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  6. AshleyAuthorJanuary 3, 2008 at 9:06 pm
    netster007x wrote:
    It’s a pretty amusing site. I think the whole all caps thing is a little odd.

    I thought the all caps thing was extremely annoying! But yes, it’s an amusing site nonetheless. :)

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  7. sylence ftwDecember 4, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    wow this is all wrong…. the translator is skrewd. adds acros in wherever it wants…. ie: WTF LOL this doesn’t even make sense. How does “What The F%*k” and “Laugh Out Loud” even belong at the end of the original sentence. Don’t like this…. inaccurate and gey. i when i read this my initial thought was… OMFG ! what a fkn scam ! ROFLMFAO

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  8. SiobhanMarch 12, 2010 at 6:37 am

    I’m 12 and I don’t type/talk like that at all. Jeez.

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  9. 12 year old girlJune 7, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    As a twelve year old girl I’m OFFENDED! We only use this “talk” when it shortens the word, so h3y is MORE ANNOYING TO TYPE than hey! I just use g2g brb lol wth (what the hell) chilin l8r and other stuff that shortens the words NOT like anything posted here.

    You guys think we’re stupid WTF IS UP WITH THAT?

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  10. another 12 year oldDecember 17, 2010 at 6:20 pm

    I am twelve, and I do not talk like that.

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