Digital Language Quotes

'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.

It's very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is that the technology constrains language in individual ways.

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.

People talk about the age and positioning of a brand, but hell, it's not about that. The global language is digital, and we need to speak the language.

So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit?

The language of digital communication is a language we don't understand in a way. People say the internet is like the Wild West in that it's lawless and we haven't worked out how to make it structured or moral.

There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned.

I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.

The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.

I don't really use emojis. Is that weird? In the time it takes for me to even find the flexed-arm emoji, I could just type that I'm at the gym.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.

When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.