Yeeeees;) Linguists want to master new forms of language on the Internet through big data analysis. We can only say: * hahaha *.
Do we have no other worries? Now American linguists are already analyzing the use of stretched words in social networksn (Plos, May 27). Ooooh my Goooott! But if you take a closer look there is a fascination.
Those who learn a foreign language often fall into the trap of articulating something too short. In Spain, for example, an improperly rolled “r” is completely misunderstood by the intended message. In China, they want to ask the supermarket seller about the milk and instead propose marriage to her just because a vowel has not gotten long enough. In contrast to this “gemination” of sounds, stretching in amic correspondence on WhatsApp or Facebook only changes the meaning of a word gradually, but in many directions. It signals exaltation: Long before the new forums were invented, a local sports moderator became very foolish because the national football team had shot a “toooooor”. Or it serves as a step up: If something is really big, it is “big” (if not “big”). The extension warns of danger (“Nooooo!”) Or indicates irony (“Of course!”).
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