Collister, Lauren Brittany
(2015)
LOL in the age of the telegraph.
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Abstract
From “lol” to “brb,” the internet and text messaging gave rise to a unique form of short form language – “textspeak” – in which almost all of us are well-versed. But long before the internet revolutionized communication, humans experienced a different sort of technological innovation: the telegraph. In 1837, the first commercial telegraphs were released by Samuel Morse, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, and this machine – as journalist Tom Standage argues in his book The Victorian Internet – mirrored the impact that the internet has had in modern times. The result was an entirely new way to wield language – one that, in a number of ways, resembles today’s textspeak.
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Collister, Lauren Brittany | | | |
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1 September 2015 |
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The Conversation |
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University of Pittsburgh |
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03 Nov 2015 16:44 |
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10 Sep 2020 15:55 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26288 |
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