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From: Bruce Jones <BruceJ@nwths.com>
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Useless memes
Date sent: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:41:47 -0500
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> OK !!!!!
> Yes there is.
> We have been discussing how memes develop and how in a dynamic language one
> meaning to start -- ends as something totally different. Howz about a new
> language that is evolving right before our eyes and we are either ignoring
> it ... or to use another metaphor .. we can't see the trees for the forest.
>
> And that is ??????? "chat - speak" ???????
>
> an example LOL = laughing out loud; ROFLMAO = Rolling on floor laughing my
> --- off", etc.
>
> These are being developed, and we have used them here ( IMHO ), as a time
> reduction device. However, I have heard them in the language as well.
>
> Comments??
> Bruce
>
>
Is there a glossary of chatspeak available on the web? AFAIK,
there is not; IMNSHO, there should be. Plus, would it only include
acronymic abbreviations, or would whole-word neologisms such as
"flaming" and "trolling" be included, also?
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wade T.Smith [SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:14 PM
> > To: memetics list
> > Subject: RE: Useless memes
> >
> > On 05/12/00 15:15, Bruce Jones said this-
> >
> > >Any NEW topics to bandy about?
> >
> > There's something new under the sun?
> >
> > - Wade
> >
> >
> >
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