LL-L "Orthography" 2005.02.16 (07) [E]

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From:  Kevin Caldwell <kcaldwell31 at comcast.net>
Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2005.02.16 (01) [E]

> From: Þjóðríkr Þjóðreksson <didimasure at hotmail.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Orthography" 2005.02.15 (08) [E]
>
>
> >From: Шевченко <kivvik_ru at mail.ru>
> >Subject: Language...
> >
> >Hello, everybody!
> >Being just a reader of all the stuff you'r sending here, now i desided to
> >write.. Actually ask..
> >How is this called?
> >for ex.
> >4 sale = for sale
> >u 2 = you too
> >CU = see you, etc.
> >But i am really interested how this way of expressing ideas called, why
> it
> >appered and when...
> >
> >Veronika Shevchenko
>
> It's generally called netspeak, "net" from internet of course. I find it
> very annoying to read, but sometimes I type "u" instead of "you" as well.
> I think it became widely used when chatting got popular (or sms-messages),
> as that's the place where I see it used most often.

Yes, "netspeak" is one term for it. More generally, I guess you could call
it shorthand.  A lot of it actually predates the internet (such as "4 sale")
and has been used in advertising, or by schoolkids (e.g., "4ever" when
carving a boy's and girl's initials on a tree).  In French, there is "G a",
which is supposed to mean, "J'ai grand appetit!" (G grand, a petit = Big G,
little a).

Kevin Caldwell

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