Language and the Internet

Finding an identity 69 Asuit, according to theJargon File, is ‘ugly and uncomfortable “business clothing” often worn by non-hack ...

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Develop an analytical ear for music.
Develop your appreciation of puns and wordplay. These char ...

Finding an identity 71 expositions about netiquette are available, and the topic turns up regularly in the press.^12 Certain beh ...

72 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET applied, in individual instances. It can take a chatgroup away from its theme for days. Such explic ...

Finding an identity 73 of specific guidelines. There are parent-like instructions: ‘Don’t techno bully’ (by being rude if someon ...

74 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET are then taken or promoted as guides to the Internet in general, an unhelpful prescriptivism can be ...

Finding an identity 75 Table 3.1. Wired Style’sten usage principles, with some explanatory comment (after Hale and Scanlon, 1999 ...

76 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Table 3.1. (cont.) 8 ‘Brave the new world of new media’ This is a fairly orthodo xaccount of the ne ...

Finding an identity 77 privileged writing over speech, formality over informality. Internet manuals are doing the reverse. It is ...

78 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET The authors go on to describe how voice ‘captures the way people talk’ and ‘adds attitude and authe ...

Finding an identity 79 maintain its place on the Internet as it does everywhere else in so- ciety. Indeed, it is unusual to see ...

80 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET (interalia)turnkey,interoperability, andeaseofuse, on the grounds thattheyare‘overused’,alongwith‘a ...

Finding an identity 81 that there is a great deal of divided usage in Netspeak, and to treat with caution those guides which com ...

82 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET and phrases have emerged which are needed to talk about Internet- restricted situations, operations ...

Finding an identity 83 innetlag,netdead,netnews,hypernet,Usenet,Netspeak,EcoNet, PeaceNet, and many other organizational names;h ...

84 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET certainly a noticeable feature of many Netspeak conversations. Lex- ical suffixes are often extende ...

Finding an identity 85 Table 3.2.Some abbreviations used in Netspeak conversations (both upper- and lower-case forms are used).a ...

86 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Table 3.2. (cont.) rtfm read the fucking tuvm thank you very much manual t xthanks rtm read the man ...

Finding an identity 87 Distinctive graphology is also an important feature of Netspeak. The range extends from an enhanced syste ...

88 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET More comple xe xamples includeQuarkXPressandaRMadillo On- line. Some of the new names cause difficu ...