Chat Room Translation Exercise

Instructions: Translate the following chat exchange between two friends into standard English. When possible, make adverbs out of the emoticons.

Chat Room Emoticons
Chat Room Acronyms

Characters:

GR8-6 - A male 21-year-old Agricultural Engineering major
24KAU - A 20-year-old nursing student

Actual CHAT Talk
Translation into Standard English

GR8-6: Hey QT, Wazzup?

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24KAU: Howdy stranger, KOC

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GR8-6: What up with that, GF, no KOL?

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24KAU: LOL, maybe I'm :-c because you haven't called in a week!

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GR8-6: I am :O. I have been TOY. Didn't you get my PM?

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24KAU: What PM? :( You sure you haven't been seeing someone else on the side? >:-(

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GR8-6: No way babe! LUWAMH!

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24KAU: ROFLUTS

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GR8-6: No, I'm serious. I'd die without U, YL.

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24KAU: OK I believe U, but I've been so \-o Yesterday I had to POAHF and go to bridge with my ma.

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GR8-6: LSHMBH. Did you win? :->

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24KAU: I don't play bridge, you moron! :P

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GR8-6: CID I'm sorry, I should have called, <:-) Can I come over now?

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24KAU: Not now, I've got to see my shrink at 7. TTYL

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GR8-6: Wait a minnit! What about later?

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24KAU: Maybe :-| AFAIK I'm free.

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GR8-6: Great, wanna go out for [_]D and &&&?

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24KAU: Maybe. TTFN. BBS.

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GR8-6: OIC, like that. I'm gonna get :*)

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Sometime later that night....

24KAU: Anybody there? \-O

(Write a translation in standard English here)

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GR8-6: Yo Babe, wht's cookin goood lookin, I LYLYLYLY ken I come over now?

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24KAU: LHU, what have U been doing while I was AFK?

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GR8-6: Well, actually, FYI, I sorta got drunk :-}

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24KAU: Couldn't wait for me, huh? |-D

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GR8-6: No,:-@. I din't even leave the house. I've been home alone all night!

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24KAU: You expect me to believe that?
:-||

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GR8-6: AFAIK BEG

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24KAU: U R terrrible! Well, it's too late to go out now. BBN

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GR8-6: What! You just got back. Don't go, I'm begging ya here....

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24KAU: ROFL You better just go to bed, or I'll tell your mother you got durnk on a school nite...:-?)

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GR8-6: You wouldn't! :0 If you do, YBS!

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24KAU: Just kidding :-X

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GR8-6: OK SYS

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24KAU: G'night SWAK

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