This document discusses various terms used to describe language used online and in chatrooms, including "Netspeak". It provides examples of Netspeak phrases that have emerged from internet communication. It also discusses how some Arabic dialects are now written with Latin/Roman letters on chatrooms instead of Arabic script, and provides examples of Arabic sounds and their Romanization. The document references several sources on language use online and Arabic online to provide context.
3. NETSPEAK
The term Netspeak is an alternative
to Netlish, Weblish, Internet
language, cyberspeak, electronic
discourse, electronic language,
interactive written discourse,
computer-mediated communication
(CMC)
4. Its my turn to download now (Ive heard all your
gossip, now hear mine)
Shes multitasking (said of someone doing two
things at once)
Lets go offline for a few minutes (i.e. lets talk in
private)
Are you wired? (i.e. ready to handle this)
Get with the programme (i.e. keep up)
5. I wanna shut down ( I want to sleep)
Low battery ( Im hangry)
9. On chat rooms such as American Facebook or
Russian VK you can trace all the languages of the
world because these chatrooms became as globalized
as thier countries dominance is.
What is new is that some dilects like Moroccan
Darija, Tamazight or oriental dilects are not written
in Arabic letters instead they are whritten in latin or
what linguistics call Romanized Arabic language.
10. Sound Arabic
Letter
R. Script
Represent
ation
Example
(& Translation)
// (glottal stop)
2 <so2al>(questio
n)
(a tightening of the
throat resembling a
light gargle)
(3adi) (normal)
//(voiced version of
above) 4 (4eda)
(tomorrow)
/X/(final sound in
Scots loch) 5 (5a2in) (traitor)
11. sound Arabic
letter
R. Script
Represe
ntation
Example
(& Translation)
/t/ (the
emphatic version
of /t/)
6 (6abla)
(table)
徴 (a heavy /h/-
type sound)
7 (7a2i6) (wall)
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9 (9atil) (killer)
12. REFERENCES
Language and the Internet, David Crystal.
The Multilingual Internet,Brenda Danet &
Susan C.Herring.
Arabic Language Use Online, Kira Allmann.