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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?

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

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.

Keywords

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

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