netspeak

The people on the Net are not all rocket scientists and computer programmers; they're graphic designers, teachers, students, artists, musicians, feminists, Rush Limbaugh-fans, and your next door neighbors. What these diverse groups of people have in common is their language. The Net community exists and thrives because of effective written communication, as on the net all you have available to express yourself are typewritten words. If you cannot express yourself well in written language, you …

…contribute to, change, and further develop Net jargon as we know it today. In addition, more people will find Net jargon spilling over into their offline lives. Nothing in our world today is changing more quickly than computer networks and technology, and therefore, no jargon is changing more quickly than Netspeak. As more and more specialty words make their way into our dictionaries, Net jargon will become increasingly prevalent in our written and spoken communication.