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DTXTR helps you decipher txt msgs

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Do you feel lost when you read abbreviations and acronyms on Twitter and other web sites because you have no idea what PMIGBOM* stands for? DTXTR can help. While this site from LG is designed with a tongue-in-cheek purpose of helping parents translate the text messages their teenage kids are sending, it can also be a helfpul guide for common abbreviations found on internet chat rooms, forums and other web pages.

As for figuring out what your teenager kids are talking about, it's probably going to take a lot more than a web based translator to figure that out.

*Putting mind in gear before opening mouth
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