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Internet slang originated in the early days of the Internet with some terms predating the Internet. [3] The earliest forms of Internet slang assumed people's knowledge of programming and commands in a specific language. [4] Internet slang is used in chat rooms, social networking services, online games, video games and in the online community.
Slang used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z; generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world) differs from slang of earlier generations; [1] [2] ease of communication via Internet social media has facilitated its rapid proliferation, creating "an unprecedented variety of linguistic variation". [2] [3] [4]
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Before the popularization of the Internet in the 1990s, Internet slang ... including how many people were already using the computer. A patch to the system was then ...
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Tony Thorne is the resident language consultant at King’s College London and founder of the school’s Slang and New Language Archive. “When you have an accelerated society with rapid change ...
Many of the Gen Alpha kids who use “skibidi” as part of their daily lingo still don’t really know what it means. It started with a now-76-part animated YouTube series called “skibidi ...
mdr: French version, from the initials of "mort de rire" which roughly translated means "died of laughter", although many French people also use LOL instead as it is the most widely used on the internet. [61] [62] mkm: in Afghanistan "mkm" (being an abbreviation of the phrase "ma khanda mikonom"). This is a Dari phrase that means "I am laughing".