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  • Social Networking Language 
    Reported by: Erica Bennett

    Friday, Nov 27, 2009 @10:11am CST

    Everywhere you look, there's social networking. At home, in the classroom, even on the street. Students at Airline High School in Bossier tell us Facebook, Myspace and Twitter are all the latest craze.

    "I have friends that live like all over. My cousin's in Florida. I have friends that live down south and stuff. That's the main way I communicate with them," senior Molly McAdoo said.

    Some experts say that communication is starting to form its own language.

    "LOL. BTW." "WBY What about you?"

    It's called "netlingo" and it's got some parents and teachers confused.

    "What does ttyl mean?," we asked father Emory Cummings. "I have no clue," he said.

    "Lol. Laughing out loud. I know some of the simpler ones but some of the more complicated ones I have to ask her what they mean," mother Jennifer Lasher said.

    "Sometimes I have to get an interpreter. Can you come tell me what this essay. I don't get this, I don't understand this and that's even how they communicate to me in personal emails," English teacher Bridgette Hall said.

    Other common abbreviations are "OMG"....which stands for "Oh My God." "IDK".. means "I Don't Know." and one of the most popular among teens- "TTYL" or "Talk To You Later."

    "It saves time. Without sitting there spelling out the whole word," senior Robert Tubbs said.

    No matter what the method...online, hand-written, via text, the younger generation believes social networking and its language is here to stay.

    "I think that just more and more are gonna come and people will just start using them. I think it's whatever the newest is, people will use," McAdoo said.

    Here is a helpful link to learn netlingo: http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php

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