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"English" Not Threatened By Webspeak

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-it-is-threatened-by-my-inability-to-discern-then-and-than dept.

MudButt writes "Linguists say not to worry too much about Netspeak, otherwise known as the language of choice in chat rooms and IM clients. According to this Yahoo! article, linguists say that terms like "cya", "brb", "afk" are a healthy way of exploring the power of the written language. They went on to say "FYI, RTFA"!"

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  1. Re:When are we getting machine code natural langua by Atlantic+Wall · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "There are three 2's in the English language" try to spell the word 2 in that sentence and get it right. =} surfs up

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