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Internet Terminology and Linguistic Conventions

            Internet Terminology and Linguistic Conventions.
             In our globalized world today the internet gives us the greater opportunity to communicate to each other through e-mail and chat room. The groups of internet users and people who love to chat in online chat room have their own cyberspace language, which is now entering the linguistic mainstream. Then we have got 2 neologisms: "emoticons" and "netcronyms". Emoticon is a combination of "emotion" and "icon". An "emoticon" is an icon that expresses emotions, or facial expressions and bodily gestures in written communication in chat room or e-mail. Emoticons are created to compensate for this inability. Emoticons are very useful for internet users because not only they are easy to create and quickly help their online partners understand what they want to say, but they also avoid possible misinterpretations. There are thousands of emoticons available on the internet with no standard definitions, and more are being created every day. Nowadays emoticons are not only limited only to techno-geeks, but even to everyday people who spend only a short time looking in their e-mail inboxes or reading their message in mobile phone.
             Netcronym is a combination of "net" and "acronym". Netcronyms are similar to emoticons. They are created for the sake of speedy online written communication. This makes me realize that in modern world today people seem to be in haste and don't want to waste time on unnecessary things , then internet users create the linguistic signs and use them as language which help them to save their time and can express their feeling and thought to the receivers in short time. But internet emoticons and netcronyms are new and they are being investigated by linguists. These symbols may show some features or linguistic aspects that should make them a formal part of linguistic convention. They are very interesting and worth thinking. But now both emoticons and netcronyms cannot be standardized because one emoticon and netcronym can have various meaning and they are created by people day by day.


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