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- Greg Malivuk
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- Homework: read the article about English on the Internet
- Bring some examples of non-standard ways that people use your language in informal writing (especially online)
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- Let’s go over the reading again because most of you didn’t do the homework…
- web+log = blog - an online journal or diary where you can share things about your life
- (video+log or video+blog = vlog)
- #hashtag - used on many social media platforms to create a searchable tag on their posts
- #snowpocalypse2015 - click on this in someone’s post and see everything that everyone else has posted about Boston’s snow in 2015
- stage whisper: when an actor on stage “whispers”, to show that something is more secretive, but you still have to stay it loudly enough for the whole audience to hear it
- http://popsonnet.tumblr.com/ - Adaptations of pop songs to be in the style of a Shakespearean sonnet
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- Register: the level of formality you use to communicate
- This sort of “internet linguistics” is very informal, and should not be used in formal writing *or* speaking.
- What we usually focus on in class is more formal, for both writing and speaking, but not so formal as to sound strange.
- a, e, i, o, u, sometimes y= vowels
- other letters = consonants
- hyphenating: when you split a word between one line and another and use a hyphen between the parts of the same word.
- knighthood = knight-hood
- author = au-thor (because ‘th’ makes a single sound in this case)
- http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/385/what-are-the-rules-for-splitting-words-at-the-end-of-a-line
- Betty bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter batter better.
- code-switching: changing between two different languages or dialects, based on context, formality, etc.
- RSVP = French for “please respond”
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- p. 15 “Language Quiz”
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