my buddy's 13yo Japanese-american niece puts this in txts to him. he has no idea what it means....usually i can help him out, but i'm at a loss here.

com'on HEENA!!! you're txt0r savvy AND asian....help a brotha out.

Ask Daniel. He's the king of these things.

I hate this part of the pub quiz.

You know, threeiatni.

also, there's a space between the second i and the quotation mark. sigh.

DANIEL!!!!!

i have no idea, i text with my big-girl words.

maybe it was just a typo?

Her name is Biani?

What kind of phone does the kid have? Maybe it has some Kana capabilities that come out garbled when received.

I think that's one of the signs of the apocalypse, to be honest.

Thou shalt text 3i@ni.

the seventh reply of the seventh reply has the gift of second sight.

Those are the launch codes to Canada's secret nuclear missile silos.

Or maybe it's the first signs of the Matrix. Has the child shown any signs of actually being a computer program? Has your coworker seen any black cats lately?

Brad, have you figured this out yet? Just have him ask his niece already.