Tim Allen is "completely oblivious" to modern text messaging

He told TooFab: "What I am completely oblivious to is texting. I'm pretty good at it. I can't believe the abbreviations that we used to call Pig Latin when I was in elementary, or high school. And all the girls had this language and I never got that. Some of these, it's such a language that it will develop into a language and if any of these kids know, there's a couple of text strings that my daughters have given me that I really...I think they're messing with me! Why don't you just say that?!"

When the Hollywood star appeared in the sitcom 'Last Man Standing' in the early 2010s, he had to use a relatively old fashioned phone and his daughters were clueless as to what it was.

"On 'Last Man Standing', I told one of the girls that I was getting this new device where you poke in numbers and the other person's voice pops up. They go 'What?!' and I said 'Yeah, you just poke in these numbers, there's a bell...' and they said What is that?', I said 'It's called a telephone!'"

"I'm not sure what we're doing now...telephones are...my kids don't like calling people. I talked to them yesterday, and they said 'Why didn't you text?' Texting and talking are not the same!"