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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 rocket
scien ....
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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 usages ....
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