I love it when old people try to understand the inner workings of the teenage brain. Like if they think hard enough they’ll figure out why little Amanda sneaks out at night. Please. Kids are kids! So parents, just understand that you’ll never understand the advanced and possibly unreal sexting terminology of your kids.
This is from the London Free Press, so maybe there’s a little bit of a lost=in-translation moment going on (you know, translating English to English is tough!) but these acronyms are so impossibly unreal I cannot believe kids would use this sort of secret language to talk about sexting. But then again, I’m not a kid anymore! Were we all this weird and out of touch with reality when we were young? P911! No wait. GYPO IWSN! 8?
Here are the 10 codes parents should know according to the London Free Press.
1. CD9 — code 9 parents are around
2. P911 — parent alert
3. PIR — parent in room
4. 8 — oral sex (or ate)
5. GYPO — get your pants off
6. GNRN — get naked right now
7. RUH — are you horny
8. CU46 — see you for sex
9. IWSN — I want sex now
10. GNOC — get naked on camera (webcam)
I’m kind of sad that I don’t know a single one of these terms. I do, however, like the GYPO, GNRN and GNOC triumvirate and the need to have different variations of “Holy crap I can’t show my peen right now because mum is giving me cookies”. Anyway, text these to your friends to see if anyone responds with anything other than ‘???’, ‘huh?’ or ‘wtf?’. [LFP via Neatorama]
Corey
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:21 AMJust letting you know I’m 15 Nd nobody ever uses these. Except for code 9 but that’s very rare
Billy Ray
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:34 AMI use GNOC, but that’s only for when I’m Skyping me mum in Massachusetts
S0ULphIRE
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10:14 AM*phew*, thought I was the only one
Ghazarios
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 4:36 PMHahahaha, made me laugh, I feel ashamed.
By the way, how do certain posters get profile pictures? Can’t seem to find any sort of profile anywhere, on Kotaku or Giz.
Virus__
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 5:24 PMIt’s called a gravatar. You sign up to their site with the email you use to post :)
Ghazarios
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 6:10 PMThanks man :)
olearymo
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 9:03 AMi’m still trying to work out how some commenters get link names? I don’t just mean authors either
james_whatsit
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 1:15 PMhtml coding man
olearymo
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:15 PMserious?
Steve
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM“Just letting you know I’m 15 ”
Considering your past posts on Giz AU, this explains a lot.
olearymo
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 9:02 AMso what’s ’15 Nd’ in human years?
George
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:26 AMThe only people I’ve ever seen text like ‘teenagers’ is parents.
I mean really, we have full QWERTY keyboards now, don’t use numbers for words.
Jed
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10:15 AMThis
Sarah
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:41 AMSounds more like something an adult would try and teach a child to give them a code for dubious reasons.
Blake
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:55 AMNobody even sends regular SMSs like that any more. When we had to cut out every character we could sure, but now SMSs are so cheap/free that you don’t care if you go over the character limit.
Azza
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:58 AMNot to mention we all know that English girls are frigid, so this is sooo not true.
John
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10:53 AMAre you kidding?! You’ve clearly never been to England!
Mark
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 12:20 PMThey might not be frigid but they are damn ugly!
Daws
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10:06 AMTHIS JUST IN! LONDON FREE PRESS CAUGHT GROOMING TEENAGERS FOR SEX!!
Never heard of any of those codes before – though i’m not 15 anymore..
Joel
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10:33 AMI’m 15, and the only one that I’ve actually used (or heard about before) is PIR. But thats it.
Christian
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 11:00 AMICUP
that is what I use most
Drongo
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 12:51 PMI creamed under pants?
T-Rollin
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 12:55 PMNo that’s apples latest fan boy gimmick. iCup… two girls are optional!
James W
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 5:48 PMHaha, made my day buddy. I should do a product mockup of that :P
Alex
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 11:14 AMI remember when MSN was all the rage back when I was 16 (I’m now 23) and there would be lists like this going around then too. I think CD9 was even on that.
As people have already pointed out, in todays age of smart phones with full QWERTY keyboards, unlimited messages and high character limits, I find text abbreviations are less common.
cayal
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 3:19 PMGood ole a/s/l.
JK
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 12:20 PMWho the heck uses those abbreviations?? I can make a oh-so-cool sext code by planting my face on the keyboard!!! Just stupid.
Matt
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 1:56 PMNever in the history of being on the net have I seen any of those. It really makes me wonder about the credibility of any of their journalism.
J147
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 3:03 PMWe use the term. DTF = Down the fuck.
XPK
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 5:34 PMit’s down TO fuck
Jack
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 11:32 PMDefinately “Down to fuck”, like “down the fuck”?
What even is that shit? swap it around and you get “Fuck the down(y)”.
Mudze
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 3:23 PMAhahahahaha… Yeah, no one uses these.
Stu
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 4:06 PMThe London Free Press writers would have been pissing themselves while making these up.
Stu
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 4:08 PMI used POS – parents over shoulder – in the MSN days, but as I grew older the proverbial definition of that abbreviation soon changed.
paul
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 4:53 PMThese must be kiwi codes. How else do you explain CU46…
Deb
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 2:41 PMCOMMENT OF THE DAY!
Ralf
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 6:36 PMWow, I don’t know about teens but with these acronyms I’ve just trebled my sexting productivity time when sending filthy messages to my 33 year old wife.
Me: Hey babe GYPO RUH??! ;-)
Wife: What? Can you bring bread home for kids lunches tomorrow?
Wife: Think the dog has ringworm.
That right there is a word for word sexting session with my wife I just had. Rocking it old people style. She probably stopped to take her pants off before she told me about the dogs ringworm.
Patrick
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 9:53 AMMade my day Ralf. That’s hilarious.
olearymo
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 9:05 AMThe teens actually getting laid are too busy getting laid to use these stupid abbreviations.
ba!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:28 AMTITS OR GTFO
btk
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 11:56 AMWe used to used “PAW” (parents are watching) when chatting on MSN Messenger back in the day.
james_whatsit
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 1:21 PMlol this comment thread is full of ‘eeerg, back in the day’ msners and ‘im 15 (cue creepy old man emails), and i…” yadayada. i dont think these terms have ever or will ever be used.
Adam
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 12:11 AMNobody uses these.
Like the article points out, it’s just parents trying to understand their teenagers.
I’d also think that the article particularly chooses sex based acronyms in order to scare parents.
Luke Frohling
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 3:18 PMLeave the kids to have fun themselves. Remember when you were young (so so so long ago). The only problem is they share pictures with other people are they don’t know who they’re sexting and it turns out to be a an older man or women and they go through with the act for real.
It’s natural and it’s (mostly) harmless. Which would you rather them hiding it under cute codes or doing it right in front of you on the sofa while you are home??