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I have been very pleased to discover that I can decipher almost every single text-speak acronym that I've ever seen, without having to look it up. (I'll admit I did have to look up MILF and PHAT.) It's a very interesting example of how redundant most language is.

The only problem I've ever had with understanding slang was watching the wonderfully good HBO TV series "The Wire," which is largely about present-day young black drug-dealers on the streets of Baltimore. The language is very authentic (the show was written by a Baltimore newspaper reporter who has spent most of his life on a city beat). But the stuff is so cryptic that even the young black actors who played the parts of the street hoodlums had to be given a lexicon along with the script so they could understand what their characters were saying.

Howdy y'all! I understand it and I speak some of it too if it's Texan...lived in Texas all my life. (I don't really say, "howdy" though.)... That's a little too "corny". But I'm not up on the meaning of most of the abreviated words that the kids use when texting. I'm from the old school.

Some of it but definitely not all of it. I have a slang saavy (or is it savvy...spell check doesn't like either of them) daughter and a 16 year old granddaughter. They clue me in.

My son lives in Virginia (moving from here in Michigan). His girlfriend was born and raised in Virginia and says y'all ALL the time!

not all of the American and none of the teenagers slang,but I was brought up in the East End of London,home of the Cockneys and am up to date with their slang.You would be surprised that a lot of people use Cockney slang without realising what it means. "Berk" is one and "ginger" is another.Look it up under Cockney slang

No I don't, and if it is so mis-understandable it can be reported as "Not an Answer" or "Not in English" as it is a requirement the we use the English language.

TXT typing (SMS messages) is an example where you just can't understand what is being asked.

YES - I like to think, like, I'm upto speed, like, with all the latest rap and crap slang 'n stuff.

Uno wot I mean, like ?

N I can SPEAK it to. man - like a native.

Noticed I even do da bad gramma as well ?

I understand spoken slang, but not most texting slang.

Not always; I didn't know what MHM meant today and had to ask the 15 year old.

Errrr...Yup. Excuse me while I Go Up The Road.

Yes I do. I also know that the term you're looking for is "computer literate"...