NetLingo and Smileys

Today I’m going start giving information on the second part of my task. It means I will talk about NetLingo.

NetLingo is Internet slang. NetLingo means using symbols, smileys, acronyms and new words while communicating over the Internet. All these things prevent us from wasting our precious time while writing long words and sentences, in fact NetLingo makes online communication much easier and faster.

For those who don’t know, NetLingo is an online dictionary of more than 3000 terms. It has definitions that explain the online world of business, technology, communication as well as computer and Internet terms. It started in 1995 and is monthly updated.

My first note concerning this topic is going to be the things we all know very well and use often. They are smileys and emoticons.

A smiley is a sequence of characters on your computer keyboard. Smileys usually follow after the punctuation (or in place of the punctuation) at the end of a sentence and they show what we really mean, express our emotions.

Here are some of the smileys we don’t really often use (for us to know, remember and use):

@>--;--  A rose

~~8-O  Bad-Hair Day

(:-{~  Beard – long

:-.)  Cindy Crawford

:-6  Eating Something Spicy

=:-H  Football player

~~:-(  Getting Rained On

:0  Hungry

%+{  Lost a Fight

:-(*)  Makes Me Sick

:^)  Personality

:-C  Real Unhappy

$__$  Sees Money

:-a  Tongue Touching Nose

:-{}  Wearing Lipstick

…and this is not the whole list! :-)

P.S. Guess who is that (_8^(|)