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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:53:15 +0800
Subject: New Internet Language
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Dear Friends,

Since the advent of the internet, quite a number
of words have come into usesge. And they are steadily
increasing.

There is a word - 'netspeak'. It denotes the words,
idioms, and pecularities of spelling and grammar that are
characteristic of online documents and communication.

"Perhaps the next great movement in English literature will
somehow be fuelled by the new phenomenon of Netspeak, or what
linguist David Crystal in his new book
Language And The Internet calls 'computer-mediated language.'"
- Dusan Petricic,
"Netspeak changes how we write,"
The Toronto Star,
November 24, 2001

"Like all arcane entities, the Internet has its own language,
sometimes known as NetSpeak."

-Ian Bacon,
"Out on the Internet"
MacUser,
April 1993

What are the characteristics of net-speak?

The dictionary says, 'inattention to the norms of
spelling and grammar; the use of all-lowercase letters;
tonal informality; infrequent punctuation; the widespread
use of abbreviations and acronyms; turning nouns into verbs.

There are also some other words similar to it.

'Weblish'.

"Just as the government is spending about Pounds 200m on
a programme to reimpose the traditional rigour of literacy
and numeracy, it also faces one of the greatest technological
challenges to English. The internet and e-mail have already
spawned their own words and grammar which has been dubbed
'weblish'."

-Richard Woods,
"Illiterate Britain!?,"
Sunday Times,
May 13, 2001


"The popularity of e-mail is destroying the normal
rules of spelling and grammar leading to 'weblish',
a lower case global language littered with mistakes,
according to marketing consultancy The Fourth Room."

-"The rise of the Digitally Literate,"
The Daily Telegraph,
August 24, 2000

There is one more word like those:

Internetese - a style of writing prevalent in Web sites,
e-mail messages, and online chat rooms.


"You will not encounter such niceties as good grammar,
spelling or literary style. Knowles' site is written
in Internetese, a sort of stream-of-consciousness ranting
in which emphasis is provided by writing in all-capitals,
and where one exclamation point is never enough."

-Doug Saunders,
"The trouble with Harry,"
The Globe and Mail

Regards

JayBee
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