Perhaps one of the most iconic internet slang terms is “LOL.” According to the Calgary Herald, the term was coined in the 1980s by Canadian Wayne Pearson in a pre-internet chat room used in ...

Have you heard of the Martian language? It is the name for how netizens type Chinese characters in unconventional ways when they are texting or posting something on social media. People will often ...

A US study has found people using abbreviations or slang in texts sound 'stupid' to others. Massey University linguistics ...