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Chat> (From
ASCII and Eboni
Cs) A style of text
Communi
Cation in English whi
Ch is most
Common on
talk systems su
Ch as
irC. Its notable
Chara
Cteristi
Cs are: Typing all in lower
Case (and o
CCasionally all in upper
Case).
Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", et
C. A general la
Ck of pun
Ctuation, ex
Cept for strings of question marks and ex
Clamation marks.
Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to eli
Cit a statement of the listener' s gender. Typi
Cal extended dis
Course in AS
CIIboni
Cs: "hey wasup ne1 want 2
Cyber?" "m or f?" AS
CIIboni
Cs is similar to the way
B1FF talked, although B1FF used more pun
Ctuation (lots more), and used all upper
Case, rather than all lower
Case. What' s more, B1FF was only interested in
warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of AS
CIIboni
Cs
Come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of AS
CIIboni
Cs predates by several years the use of the word "AS
CIIboni
Cs", as the word
Could only have been
Coined in or after late 1996, when "Eboni
Cs" was first used in the US media to denote the US English diale
Cts known in the linguisti
C literature as "Bla
Ck Verna
Cular English". (1997-06-21)
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