Linguistic Features of Synchronous and Asynchronous Netspeak

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Communication over the Internet is considered by many researchers as ‘written speech’. The medium of Netspeak illustrates the challenges faced by the users owing to their expectations from and nature of this medium. Netspeak attempts to incorporate the features of both written (asynchronous) and speech (largely synchronous) communication.  The term «Netspeak» is an alternative to «Netlish», «Weblish», «Internet language», «cyberspeak», «electronic language», «computer-mediated communication» (CMC), and other more cumbersome locutions.” The word itself is a coinage of two words  «internet» and «speak». Netspeak is succinct, and functional enough.