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To continue our discussion of
E-Mail, this month's Cyber Pearl will highlight E-Mail dialoguing.
It's All E-Lingo To Me
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Evolution
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It’s all greek to me.
Every heard that term being used? It
simply means, if you aren’t Greek you don’t know what the heck is going on.
Well it’s all e-lingo means the exact same thing.
If you aren’t an “email junkie” you may not know all of the codes
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That was the case with me, when my
girlfriend started sending
me messages. I seriously
thought she had a typing problem. I’d find all kinds of letters typed
randomly at the end of her email.
I’d find :’s and )) after words. It
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I was so
confused!
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I finally asked her if we could take a
typing tutor on line together. I
didn’t want her sending dysfunctional emails to everyone. I had no idea that she was merely
embarking on the e-mail lingo that so many users had become accustomed to.
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Legend has it that the very first
e-mail ended with the sideways image of SMILEY like so :) This symbol came to be known as an
"emoticon." |
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As you'd expect with anything that boasts millions of participants,
(including people that you know) the Internet is home to a wide variety of characters. In particular, the Net seems to attract more than its fair share of three kinds of folks:
neologists, jargonauts, and nymrods. |
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Jargonauts |
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Neologists |
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Nymrods |
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| are Net surfers who seek out new words and new phrases and who boldly try to get these coinages into general circulation by using them as often as possible. |
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are people who coin new words and phrases by making them up, by
enlisting existing words to perform new duties, or by combining two or more words into a new creation (the offspring of these lexical unions are called portmanteaus—a meaning coined by the inveterate neologist
Lewis Carroll).
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Nymrods are Net
types who, without even the slightest sting of conscience or pang of doubt, insist on turning every multiword computer term into an acronym. |
 These
people have GOT to be annoying!!
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may electronically meet anyone of these people while surfing the Net or
exchanging e-mail. Yes, they will
make fun of your electronic naiveté. They may even call you
"analogue." Which is the 21st Century equivalent
of saying, "behind the times." |
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You will be exposed to all kinds of new jargon, acronyms, and symbols that could threaten to render your
inbox unintelligible. The next page will help you decipher these
idioms and acronyms.
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