Usage within social media: On my regular check on social media I go on to search for my words and to my surprise it is being picked up by ‘random’ unlinked peoeple. This is great…and it has been retweeted 5 times and been starred as a favourite Get spreading the words! And the good old [...]
Loiternet adjective 1. To loiter on the Internet with no true purpose. “Emma’s worse habit is to loiternet.” “she loiternetted instead of doing her studying.” synonyms: loiter, linger, hang around, spend time on, waste time, kill time, sagittis, molestie, 2. To stay around on the internet not doing much for long periods of time. “Edward [...]
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Facebook Group Created And the odd Facebook status update… And even got in to someones ‘word cloud’ of most used words on Facebook! Every little bit counts: And used in everyday status update:
Woohoo…I got Loiternet and Litternet in to the Urban Dictionary. That embeds its existence out there and helps on the search side of things: Loiternet gets in to the Urban Dictionary Litternet gets in to the Urban Dictionary Immersinet gets in to the Urban Dictionary
As Connie Eble highlights in her summary of Sociolinguistics, “the study of how language serves and is shaped by the social nature of human beings.” It looks in to how society and language works, how they relate to each and how it changes across various environments. All of which is controlled by us as humans [...]
Language is forever changing. As discussed in Sociolinguistics society is changing and therefore language changes with it, new inventions bring new words and new ways of saying and describing things. Within language change a important area I want to investigate is Lexical Change. Lexical Change Lexical change is the change in the meaning or use [...]
Social Network Analysis Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the understanding of people and connection with regards to social networking, allowing us better insight in how we best interact to share information with each other. This can be measured between individuals, groups, organisations to name a few. This is relative in my field of study to [...]
Alex Horne (Comedian) – How to invent a word http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/alex-horne–how-to-invent-a-word-1900477.html Image sourced from: http://www.celebritybusinessspeakers.com/speaker-catalogue/alex-horne/ Alex Horne (2010) set himself a goal of 4 years to get a word or words in the dictionary. “I am going to scatter a handful of verbal seeds into the language. These will be new, original, freshly coined words or [...]