In Pop Culture
In the English-speaking world, examples include the word ‘bazinga’ from the CBS show The Big Bang Theory and, in Japanese, the term moe has come into common use among slang users to mean something extremely cute and appealing. Aside from the more frequently found abbreviations, acronyms and emoticons, Internet slang is also based on archaic words or the lesser-known dialectal counterparts of a term in mainstream language. Regular words can also be altered into something with a similar pronunciation but altogether different meaning, or attributed new meanings altogether. Phonetic transcriptions of foreign words, such as the transformation of ‘impossible’ into ‘impossibru’ in Japanese and then back to English, is also observed. In places where logographic languages are used such as China, a visual variety of Internet slang is also observable, where a character has a duality in meaning- direct and implied.
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