NETSPEAK

LEXICAL DISTINCTIVENESS

•Compounding
•Affixation
•Blends
•Creative forms
•Conversions
 COMPOUNDING

•Mouse: mouseclick,
mouseover, mousepad
•Ware: firmware, freeware,
groupware, shovelware,
wetware
•Web: webmail, webmaster,
 AFFIXATION
• Hyper-: hyperfiction, hyperlink,
hypertext, hyperzine
• -bot: annoybot, cancelbot, chatterbot,
knowbot, mailbot, softbot, spybot
• Cyber-: cyberspace, cyberculture,
cyberlawyer, cybersex,
cybersquatter, cyberian, cybercrime,
cybersitter, cyber rights
 BLENDS

•Bugzilla
•Cybercide
•Datagram
•Infobahn
•Infonet
•Internaut
 CREATIVE FORMS

•Ecruiting
•Ecruiter
•E-lance
•Etailing
•net.citizen
•net.legend
 CONVERSIONS

•To mouse
•To clipboard
•To geek out
•To backspace
•Whois
•Whowhere
TXTING
 AFAIK

As far as I
know
 ATW

At the
weekend
 BBL

Be back later
 BCNU

Be seeing
you
 B4

before
 BRB

Be right back
 BTW

By the way
 CM

Call me
 CUL, CUL8R

See you later

 DK

Don’t know
 F?

Friends?
 FOTCL

Falling off
the chair
 FWIW

For what it’s

worth
 FYA

For your
amusement
 FYI

For your
information
 G

grin
 GAL

Get a life
 GMTA

Great minds
think alike
GR8

great
 HHOK

Ha ha only
kidding
 IANAL

I am not a
lawyer, but…
 ICWUM

I see what
you mean
IMHO

In my
humble
 IMNSHO

In my not so
humble
 IMO

In my
opinion
 IOW

In other
words
 JAM

Just a minute
 JK

Just kidding
 KC

Keep cool
 LOL

Laughing out
loud
 LMAO

Laughing my
ass off
 NP

No problem
 OIC

Oh I see
 OTOH

On the other
hand
 PMJI

Pardon my
jumping in
 ROTF

Rolling on
the floor
 ROTFL

Rolling on
the floor
SMTOE / S!M!!OE!!

Sets my
teeth on
 SO

Significant
other
THX, TNX, TX

thanks
 TIA

Thanks in
advance
 TMOT

Trust me on
this
TTYL / TTYL8R

Talk to you
later
 TTTT

To tell (you)
the truth
 WADR

With all due

respect
 WRT

With respect
to
 WU

What’s up?
 X!

Typical
woman
 Y!

Typical man