354981 external_news 1418302883 1475893643 We often talk about the Internet as if it has its own dialect. But is it true that there is a single, unified “netspeak”? New research from Jacob Eisenstein (Interactive Computing) suggests that rather than collapsing online verbiage into undifferentiated “netspeak,” social media tends to reproduce the fault lines in regular spoken language.

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