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- noun informal The
language used on theInternet or incyberspace .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I've long been fond of Heather McHugh's poetry, and have even longer been fond of collage-type poems, so I was particularly delighted to read her collage-poem of cyberspeak, "Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies" in a recent issue of The New Yorker:A beige toaster is a maggotbox.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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I've long been fond of Heather McHugh's poetry, and have even longer been fond of collage-type poems, so I was particularly delighted to read her collage-poem of cyberspeak, "Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies" in a recent issue of The New Yorker:A beige toaster is a maggotbox.
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Perhaps more attentive to grammar and less likely to use cutesy cyberspeak, heh. older bloggers expound on topics as varied as poetry and politics, gardening and grandmothering.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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Sez Tom: "See how comfortable I am with this cyberspeak now!"
November 2006 2006
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Sez Tom: "See how comfortable I am with this cyberspeak now!"
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In the fall of 1995 the group sent unsolicited messages (or "spams," in cyberspeak) to nearly 100 special-interest Usenet groups.
Blaming The Web 2008
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One of the pleasures of reading most of the comments by older users is seeing the care they take in actually communicating with others, instead of relying on cryptic abbreviations like OMG or LOL – oh, my God and laugh out loud in cyberspeak.
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Poetry News: I've long been fond of Heather McHugh's poetry, and have even longer been fond of collage-type poems, so I was particularly delighted to read her collage-poem of cyberspeak, "Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies" in a recent issue of The New Yorker: A beige toaster is a maggotbox.
GotPoetry.com News 2009
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lol it just looks wrong capitalized; like other vocabulary forged in cyberspeak it carries content indivisible from its form is traveling the path that OK took in the late nineteenth century.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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lol it just looks wrong capitalized; like other vocabulary forged in cyberspeak it carries content indivisible from its form is traveling the path that OK took in the late nineteenth century.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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