Globe Gen Txt Clever Phonetic Ad

At first it looked like gibberish, but it turned out to be a SMS that needed decoding. Try to figure it out yourself.

a b k k i b p l t l g
p r s t o n k g y k n
n k b b s ng p i s i s
s y s y h h h h
o i p s n s i b

In the past, my friend was always bemoaning the fact that she couldn’t understand her daughter’s numerous SMS. Not that I was any more hip then she was, but upon reading the said SMS, I could usually figure it out, because, in general, abbreviations in texting were based on phonetics. Using the same principle, the message, I think, is—

Aba, kakaiba pala talaga
Para sa tao na kagaya ko na
Nakababasa ng paisa-isa
Saya-saya. Ha ha ha ha…
O, ipasa na sa iba…

It took me three attempts before I was sure that I got it right. Just to make sure that I did, I made my friend and her two daughters read the ad too. Surprisingly, my friend was the one who got it the fastest. She attributed it to the training her daughter provided her. Consequently, she’s now composing her SMS in the same cryptic way.

Oh, and the ad ends with this note, “O di ba, sa wikang Pilipino lang yan possible.” Well, I think that claim can be done when Tagalog is compared with the English language, but I’m not so sure with the other Asian languages. Any linguistics expert out there who can offer an opinion?

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