Language and the Internet

158 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET

10. ∗∗∗LUCKMAN has left channel #PUNJAB


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12. 
    dave-g good stuff:)
    


13. 
    kally: so hows school life, life in geneal, love life,
    family life?
    


14. 
    jatt no we don’t know each other, i fine
    


15. 
    ashna: where r ya from?
    

Messages from one exchange routinely interrupt another. If we
disentangle them, we can see that there are basically two exchanges:
Ashna and Jatt are carrying on one conversation:

1.<ashna>hi jatt

4.<Jatt>ashna: hello?

6.<ashna>howareujatt

9.<Jatt>ashna: do we know eachother?. I’m ok how are you

14.<ashna>jatt no we don’t know each other, i fine

15.<Jatt>ashna: where r ya from?

Dave-G and Kally are carrying on another:

3.<Dave-G>kally i was only joking around

5.<kally>dave-g it was funny

8.<Dave-G>kally you da woman!

12.<kally>dave-g good stuff:)

Jatt then starts another conversation with kally:

13.<Jatt>kally: so hows school life, life in geneal, love life, family

life?

In addition, Puja and Luckman leave the session (the asterisks show
messages produced by the IRC software):

2.∗∗∗Signoff: puja

7.<LUCKMAN>ssa all

10.∗∗∗LUCKMAN has left channel #PUNJAB

11.∗∗∗LUCKMAN has joined channel #punjab

Each exchange is interrupted by messages from the other, destroy-
ing any conventional understanding of adjacency pairing (p. 33).