‘If winter comes can
summer be far behind’ goes the saying.
Today every branch has its own terms developed over the ages. People using Blackberry devices would talk on
Blackberry terms and similarly people in railway would like to talk in his own
terms. This jargon language of each and every field of life has of late entered
the English dictionary. Email has its
own language, so has the Chatting over the internet. All such languages, either blend terms or
portmanteaus are examples of compact beauty.
By and by internet is making inroad into houses. Slowly but steadily Internet is fast becoming
one of the favorite destination of researchers, students for purpose of
knowledge, fun, friendship, chatting, emailing, file sharing, photo uploading
and many other things. Social Networks
have attracted a majority of internet users and providing such interesting
services like Forum or Discussion Board for sharing views and uniting all like
minded people in a single community. It
has become so successful that today it is very easy to find glitterati or film
stars or politicians in such social networking sites. Did you know that the
American President Barrack Obama is an internet user and he can be found in
network like Twitter. In fact, he had used the power of the
internet to raise huge sum of money to fund his electoral campaign. In India film stars like Amir Khan Shahrukh
Khan and Amitabh Bachhan are notable internet users.
Social networks like Facebook, Myspace,
Orkut, Twitter,
Hi5, Ibibo,
Friendster are highly preferable sites
of young people. And a notable feature of all these sites is that they have
contributed a lot to the development of the English language in blending
innumerable terms. As many people are
using such networks it is but obvious the vocabulary terms have entered into
day to day writing and speaking. In this
way gradually such vocabulary terms have made inroad into the mainstream
language. English is assimilative and it
adapts and adopts faster as compared to other languages. Further, the development is also confined to
the English language as English has been the preferable language of the
internet users. The development in other
languages of the world may be said negligible.
Let’s analyze some new
vocabulary terms being used by users of Twitter users.
The language that has
evolved over the time is nothing but the use of prefix Twit… to an existing
word and blending that for better pronunciation. And the plethora of vocabularies that has
evolved can be compiled a twittonary.
Yea, you are right that is nothing but a twitter specific
dictionary. So here I am with a list of
terms used by twitter users.
Auto-nudge: This is a
setting that sends automatic nudges as per schedule set.
Dweet: Tweets sent in
inebriated condition.
Mistweet: A tweet one
later repents.
Nudge: a friendly note sent
to a dormant user to be active or update.
Sweeple: Sweet twitters
people.
Twitterspeak: The
language of the twitter users.
Tweeter/Twitterer: The
twitter user.
Tweets: Short messages.
(140 characters maximum)
Tweeting: Posting the
short messages.
Twadd: To add a tweeter
user.
Twaffic: Twitter
traffic.
Tweetheart: That
flutters the heart of a user.
Tweepish: Feeling
sheepish or rueful about a tweet.
Twexting: Who likes to
send only text messaging.
Twebay: To sell
something on twitter as in E-bay.
Twitterati: that is
glitterati of twitter. To whom everyone follows.
Twitterlooing:
Twittering from bathroom.
@username: ((@sudam08 my user name) By this way a
direct message is posted to a user.
In Orkut a message is
known as Scrap. Now scrap is not that one usually knows as garbage. It is a short message. It is used both as Noun and Verb.
In Facebook similarly
it is known as wall. It is also used as
Noun and Verb. Like, he walled me
written something on the wall a virtual first page of a profile.
Poke: That is called
Nudge in twitter. Ah, there is a
Super-Poke also that is nothing but the next level of poking if someone
relentlessly ignores Pokes.
The list is endless and
the research is on by network users.
Next time I will bring another collection of vocabularies from those sites. Till then it is bye for now. Thank you.
