Sa Madaling Salita
“In easy speech” / “In quick words”
= In other words
Sa madaling salita, tinamad ka.
In short, you felt lazy.
In English, SMS is an acronym for “Short Message Service,” which can be literally translated into Tagalog as “Serbisyo ng Maiikling Mensahe” but absolutely no one would think to use that phrase, particularly since Es-Em-Es is just three syllables.
Also see Filipino initialisations (acronyms and abbreviations composed of initials), as well as Filipino reductions and shortenings, and omission of parts of speech
