The above examples can be parsed as follows:
0(o)9(ku)0(re)6(ru)
10(do)5(ko)2(ni)1(i)6(ru)
8(ha)7(na)4(shi)10(ta)9(ku)7(na)1(i). (*By the way, this can also mean "I don't want to talk to you"!)
I got a "codebook" for such numerical messages at an auction site the other day. Actually, I had a copy of this book back then (not that I used it myself, but I bought it out of curiosity), but I think I discarded it some years ago. I also had a similar texting codebook for English that I bought in London around 2000. I hope I have not discarded it.
Notes (25 September 2021)
About the English "codebook" for texting, I was sure it would be in a stack of boxes in my study if I had not discarded it. Today, I had time to check them, and found nothing. It seems I threw them away with the Japanese "codebook".
Instead, I found my memo of
the titles. They are still on Amazon:
text me --All the text messages you need for your mobile phone (2000)
WAN2TLK? ltle bk of txt msgs (2000)
LUVTLK! ltle bk of luv txt (2001)
Notes (25 April 2024)
I found photos (film photos!) of some pager codebooks among my papers.
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