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New web lingo

Postby Perry Lassiter » Sun May 06, 2012 1:39 pm

NYT today has interesting article where even the OED gets on board with new web terms like lol and omg!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/techn ... e-web.html
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Postby Slava » Mon May 07, 2012 6:37 pm

:cry:

While I bemoan what may appear as the demise of the language, I still have hope that the future will prove brighter than it looks at present.
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Postby Perry Lassiter » Mon May 07, 2012 7:32 pm

But it was the web that brought me the article! And Facebook the next post!
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Postby Slava » Mon May 07, 2012 7:52 pm

But it was the web that brought me the article! And Facebook the next post!
I bemoan not the Web and its bits and pieces. Rather it is the disintegration of grammatical communication I mourn.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.


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