Sentence examples for internet lingo from inspiring English sources

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Best of all, she said, "I never use emoticons, XOXO, abbreviations, terrible spelling or internet lingo".

Other sites gave people a chance to post condolences, seek spiritual counsel or chat, although the talk was much more serious and solemn than the Internet lingo would suggest.

In fact, if you are anything other than a complete Sony fanboy (that's Internet lingo for an obsessed, myopic groupie) go ahead and forget about the PlayStation 3 this year.

But instead of classical idioms, each canvas displayed a popular phrase taken from modern Chinese Internet lingo, including xi da pu ben and tu yang tu senpo, a mocking, phonetic reference to an outburst by former President Jiang Zemin during which he used English to accuse Hong Kong reporters of being "too young" and "too simple".

Appropriating Internet lingo at this point seems wholly apropos: WTF.

Like so much other modern internet lingo, the "shadow ban" seems to have come from the humor website and forums Something Awful.

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The philosopher Jacques Derrida gained notoriety by dimming the bright line between what was known in strange pre-Internet lingo (French, was it?) as langue and parole.

If you really say hashtag, LOL, BRB or any other internet-lingo in actual conversation, it might be time to put down the phone.

Gerry Simone, a spokeswoman with Primus Telecommunications, which offers the Lingo Internet phone service, said that it had the same emergency service as Verizon, but added that the company had some problems routing 911 calls.

Ellen Stoloff, who works at a software company in New York, said she was frustrated with her Internet phone line from Lingo because many calls failed to connect, and the audio was often muffled or crackling.

Was the music interrupted by two adolescent male voices jabbering trucker lingo?… The Internet is full of mysteries.

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