2014-08-07 Communication: internet-speak, global language

Homework: find or think of examples of internet-speak in your language
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[email protected]
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Pig Latin:
Let's translate this from English to Pig Latin.
Etslay anslatetray isthay omfray Englishay ootay igpay atinlay
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transliteration: writing the sounds of one language in a different alphabet
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where r u? c u l8r
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jaja/jiji/jeje (Spanish)
kkkkk (Korean)
55555 (Thai)
XA XA (Russian)

hahaha = real laughter / ha ha ha = ironic laughter
lololol
omg (from 1918)
RSVP = please respond (in French)
"please RSVP" -> "RSVP" = respond
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:-(  :-/
WHERE ARE YOU???  Where are you?  where r u

fine, you?

I'm fine.

okay.

okay
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Arabic		Islam		North Africa/Middle East
Latin		Catholicism	Western Europe
Sanskrit	Hinduism	India
		& Buddhism
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http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/proposal.html
"A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue" (1712)