Re: emailese

From: Torsten Pedersen
Message: 5471
Date: 2001-01-13

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> This question is for Cyril as well as all the list members. There
are so
> many of us at the moment that I couldn't possibly contact you all
off-list.
>
> Ms Magdalena Julkowska, a student of mine at Poznan University, is
currently
> writing her MA thesis on "Emailese" English. She's collecting a
corpus of
> data reflecting different Internet genres and styles. Would you
agree, for
> the sake of the advancement of science, to let her select a number
of last
> year's Cybalist postings as a sample of the Egroup dialect of
Emailese? If
> nobody objects, let me interpret silence as mute consent.
>
> Piotr

For that specific purpose, yes

Torsten