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The Impact of Technology

 

Characteristic of “Chat-Room English”

 
  • unusual symbol combinations, as in personal nicknames which use upper-and lower-case letters unpredictably: daViD, aLoHA

 
  • omission of capitalization within sentences, even including i for I

 
  • omission of internal sentence punctuation and full stops (though question marks and exclamation marks are usually kept)

 
  • abbreviations, often involving rebuses (as in text-messaging), such as sat for Saturday, C U “see you”, l8 “late”

 
  • emotive punctuation sequences, such as yes!!!!!!!, Jim??!!??

 
  • spellings, such as outta “out of”, wanna “want to”, cee ya “see you”, seemz “seems”

 
  • grammatical constructions, such as omitting a verb (he lovely), or breaking a concord rule (me am feeling better)

 
  • eye-dialect forms, such as it wuz lotsa lafs, i got enuf

 
  • nonce formations, such as running words together (igottanewcar) or abnormal hyphenation (what-a-helluva-mess)

 
  • misspellings or lexical substitutions which achieve a fashionable privileged status in a particular group, such as the deliberate spelling of computer as comptuer (originating in an individual error which caught the group's fancy)

 

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Source of examples: David Crystal. The Stories of English (Penguin Books, 2005)
 
 
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