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Clever ciphers – around abbreviations and emoticons

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Link to the lesson

You will learn
  • you will describe what is the Internet slangslangslang

  • you will indicate the characteristic features of the Internet communication

  • you will enumerate the functions of emoticonsemoticonsemoticons and tell what emotions they express

  • you will explain what the acronymsacronymacronyms are

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Exercise 1

Go through your SMSSMSSMS or e‑mailsmaile‑mails and think what language do you use in them Write down your findings.

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The world is rushing forward in an amazing speed. We all want to be the first and to stay on top of things. That is why the technology develops so quickly and its main task is to serve people. At the same time we think that we have less and less time, so we want the information flow to be rapid – we care for the message, not the quality. The language is a living matter and it quickly reacts to the changes in the ways of communication. For older people the language of the contemporary media is very often difficult to understand, even cipheredcipherciphered, but young people treat it as something natural and use it on everyday basis in their e‑mails, SMS, on Skype or in discussions. Is it a cipher or a modern e‑languagee‑languagee‑language that some people can use without problems while others struggle to understand?

Exercise 2

Read the following e‑mails and do the exercises.

1.

Dear Ms,

In response to your questions, I would like to inform that all the documents necessary for your employment have been received by us in due time and are now reviewed on their merits. We will inform you via e‑mail if your application was successful or not.

Jakub B.

Sincerely,

2.

Yo, Patryk!

Are you hitting my pad on New Year’s Eve? If so, everybody chips in 15 zloty. Take something to drink, big bag of crisps and something cracking – Piccolo sticks xD!

Peace out, see you on TS! ;))

Przemson

Exercise 3
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Wykonaj ćwiczenie zgodnie z poleceniem.
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Exercise 4
Describe possible facial expressions that express: sadness, anger, confusion, boredom, joy.
Exercise 5
How do you think, can we create a story using only emoticons? What would it be?
How do you think, can we create a story using only emoticons? What would it be?
Interesting

Did you know that the emoticon, described as: face with tears of joy has been chosen a word of the year 2015 by the Oxford Dictionaries? From all the words that have been appearing in the texts the most often in a given year, the jury have chosen only one – the one word which influence on the culture and the language was the most significant. For the first time it was the emoticon.

Task 1

Read the fragment of the conversation during the game between the two players of League of Legends - Patryk and Przemek, then answer questions.

Przemek: No, siemka, jestem.

Patryk: Hej, ja jestem readyreadyready.

Przemek: Zaproś go, RP’kiRP’kiRP’ki wydał na logologologo.

Patryk: Ale mam lagilagilagi! Już pograłem.

Przemek: Dawaj, ja nie mam czasu. ZWZWZW na chwilkę. (po chwili) Już gram. Mam ochotę zagrać JaxemJaxJaxem. Kogo mam picknąćpicknąćpicknąć na midamidmida? Co ty na to? Mam lagi, nie pogramy, mam 600 pingapingpinga.

Patryk: Ja gram YasuoYasuoYasuo.

Przemek: Ale mam fajne stackowaniestackowaniestackowanie na QQQ! Jest OK. Co robisz?!

Patryk: Gram, a co?

Przemek: Kim grasz? Mam scrollascrollscrolla zrąbanego! NiceniceNice! Sprzedaj skinskinskin.

Patryk: Master YIMaster YIMaster YI wraca.

Przemek: Ich Master, ostro leci! WbiłwbićWbił, żeby flashnąćflashnąćflashnąć.

Patryk: Uwaga, biegnie!

ready
RP’ki
logo
lagi
ZW
Jax
picknąć
mid
ping
Yasuo
stackowanie
Q
scroll
nice
skin
Master YI
wbić
flashnąć

In pairs discuss the language of the on‑line games players (“gamers”) List its characteristic features.

Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Assign to the right group the expressions used in the gamers’ conversation. Slang Words from the English language Words from the English language with the elements of Polish grammar (word-creating) Abbreviations created from the first letters of the subsequent words. Możliwe odpowiedzi: 1. stackowanie, 2. RP, 3. zrąbanego, 4. ZW, 5. ready, 6. skin, 7. siemka, 8. picknąć

When we contact people on the Internet chatchatchat, forumforumforum or via SMS, we usually want to express things quickly and in the shortest possible form. For this purpose we use the abbreviationsabbreviationsabbreviations. Acronyms are abbreviations created from the first letters of the subsequent words.

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Exercise 8
Explain the acronyms. IMO LOL 4U THX GTG BRB SQL WUU2 KK OMG BTW
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Exercise 9
Wykonaj ćwiczenie zgodnie z poleceniem.
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Keywords

E‑language, mail, SMS, abbreviations, the Internet slang, emoticons

Glossary

acronym
acronym
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Nagranie słówka: acronym

akronim

chat
chat
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Nagranie słówka: chat

chat

e‑language
e‑language
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Nagranie słówka: e‑language

e‑język

emoticons
emoticons
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Nagranie słówka: emoticons

emotikony

forum
forum
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Nagranie słówka: forum

forum

slang
slang
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Nagranie słówka: slang

język potoczny

mail
mail
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Nagranie słówka: mail

korespondencja

abbreviations
abbreviations
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Nagranie słówka: abbreviations

skrótowce

the Internet slang
the Internet slang
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Nagranie słówka: the Internet slang

slang internetowy

SMS
SMS
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Nagranie słówka: SMS

sms

cipher
cipher
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Nagranie słówka: cipher

szyfr

borrowings
borrowings
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Nagranie słówka: borrowings

zapożyczenia