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Netspeak: An Analysis Of Internet Jargon
Approximately 30 million people world-wide use the Internet and online
services daily. The Net is growing exponentially in all areas, and a
rapidly increasing number of people are finding themselves working and
playing on the Internet. The people on the Net are not all ....
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.... people. As a result, technological vocabulary is
entering into non-technological communication. For example, even the
archaic UNIX command "grep," (an acronym meaning Get REpeated Pattern) is
becoming more widely accepted as a synonym of "search" in everyday
communication.
The argument rages as to whether Netspeak is merely slang, or a jargon in
and of itself. The language is emerging based loosely upon
telecommunications vocabulary and computer jargons, with new derivations
and compounds of existing words, and shifts creating different ....
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