260 Index of topics
Dungeons and DragonsTM, 171–2
Dutch, 19, 217, 219
dynamic character of Netspeak, 44, 109,
121, 145, 157, 201
e- (as prefix), 21, 83
E- (as prefix), 83
e-conferences, 129
Economist,The,1,22
economy
in spelling, 88
of expression, 187
ecosystem, 59
editing, 170, 207
of broadcast recordings, 122
of chatgroup messages, 133, 149
of e-mails, 111, 121–2, 128
of newspaper copy, 122
of virtual-world logs, 191
of Web pages (or lack of it), 207
editors, 133, 240
educational settings, 232
e-mail used, 128
virtual worlds used, 172
Efnet, 152
electronic
dialogue, 25
discourse/language, 17, 239
mailseee-mail
medium, 24, 48
revolution, viii, 5
Electronic Text Center, 196
elision, 164
ellipsis
dots, 89
in sentences, 113, 122
ElseMOO, 15–16, 174, 176, 182, 184, 186,
187, 189–90
Elvish, 219
e-mail, 3, 10–11, 29, 31–2, 94–128, 203,
226, 239
abbreviations, 84–6
addresses, 35, 95, 97, 159, 201
anonymity, 50
as a contact language, 48
automated elements, 99–100, 104
body content, 95, 99, 107–25
cheapness, 125–6
closeness to speech and writing, 41–7
coherence, 112–13
compared with chatgroups, 129–30, 139
compared with virtual worlds, 184
copies, 96–7
dialogues, 35
discourse structure, 94–124
dynamic nature, 44
editing, 111, 121–2
employment regulations, 127
etiquette, 72–3
farewells, 99, 102–6, 125
flaming, 56
framing, 119–21
functions, 58, 107, 125–8
graphology, 123–4
greetings, 99–102, 106, 125
headers, 95–9, 125
hyphenation, 97
in language teaching, 233–4
length, 113–15
limitations, 126–7
message history, 117
on the Web, 204
on WAP-phones, 230
permanence, 121
printing out, 117
punctuation, 89, 124, 128
purpose, 94, 125–8
saving keystrokes, 87
smileys used, 38–9, 124
spelling, 88, 123
standard English used, 79, 242
style recommendations, 74, 77, 97,
104–12, 127–8, 213
subject-matter, 126–7, 137
syntax, 40
typography, 87, 97, 123, 140
uniqueness, 125–8
user totals, 94
variation, 106–7, 128
variety status, 122
emoticon,83
emoticonsseesmileys
emoting, 36, 180–91
emphasis, expression of, 34–5,
90, 98
-en,84
encryption, 50, 240
encyclopedic classification, 210
endangered languages, 219–20
English
American vs other, 63, 76, 88
Chinese, 220