pidgin?
--The_Lex Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:24:39 +0000
'Foppish' has two 'p's.
:-)
--Catherine Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:15:45 +0000
Also, yes I believe that does count as a pidgin. And there are enough PhD Linguistics students about for at least a few people to be studying it - as far back as five years ago the fabulous British linguist David Crystal wrote a book called 'Language and the Internet', which touches on this sort of thing. Language and language study sites are very well represented on the Internewt, so if you do a search you'll probably find a few mentions of it.
--Catherine Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:18:21 +0000
Duly noted and correted.
But I'm not sure what to Google on for this particular topic...
--Kirk Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:32:51 +0000
It may also be an attempt to compensate for an English keyboard.
--ericball Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:04:27 +0000
Yes, that's exactly why...well, the keyboard and possibly character-display issues. I'm sure if technnology wasn't an issue they'd prefer to write in Russian.
--Kirk Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:37:02 +0000