Meaning of "weblish" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WEBLISH

Web (sense 14) + (Eng)lish.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF WEBLISH

weblish  [ˈwɛblɪʃ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEBLISH

Weblish is a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WEBLISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Internet slang

Internet slang refers to a variety of slang languages used by different people on the Internet. It is difficult to provide a standardized definition of Internet slang due to the constant changes made to its nature. However, it can be understood to be a type of slang that Internet users have popularized, and in many cases, have coined. Such terms often originate with the purpose of saving keystrokes or to compensate for small character limits. Many people use the same abbreviations in texting and instant messaging, and social networking websites. Acronyms, keyboard symbols and abbreviations are common types of Internet slang. New dialects of slang, such as leet or Lolspeak, develop as ingroup internet memes rather than time savers.

Definition of weblish in the English dictionary

The definition of weblish in the dictionary is the shorthand form of English that is used in text messaging, chat rooms, etc.

TRANSLATION OF WEBLISH

Find out the translation of weblish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of weblish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «weblish» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: weblish
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• English: weblish
• Translator English - Hindi: weblish
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• Translator English - Russian: weblish
• Translator English - Portuguese: weblish
• Translator English - Bengali: weblish
• Translator English - French: weblish
• Translator English - Malay: Web
• Translator English - German: Weblish
• Translator English - Japanese: weblish
• Translator English - Korean: weblish
• Translator English - Javanese: Websit
• Translator English - Vietnamese: weblish
• Translator English - Tamil: weblish
• Translator English - Marathi: वेबलिश
• Translator English - Turkish: weblish
• Translator English - Italian: weblish
• Translator English - Polish: weblish
• Translator English - Ukrainian: weblish
• Translator English - Romanian: weblish
• Translator English - Greek: weblish
• Translator English - Afrikaans: weblish
• Translator English - Swedish: weblish
• Translator English - Norwegian: weblish

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEBLISH»

Discover the use of weblish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to weblish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Teaching Academic and Professional English Online

With reference to Algeos classification, Weblish has revealed that a recurrent word-formation process is the use of composites and particularly of affixation ( prefixes). Typical Weblish prefixes which have been found by students in ICT lexicon ...

Isabel González-Pueyo, 2009

World Englishes: A Resource Book for Students

Headmaster Anthony Macrory said the group had "a tremendous fight on our hands, with the Internet and e-mails responsible for 'weblish' and mobile phone text messages undoing all that is taught in English classes". In "weblish", e-mails are ...

Jennifer Jenkins, 2003

Registered Trademark:

Weblish loves to see nouns happily become verbs ("Please bookmark this site": " Stop flaming me!"), and 45 verbs become nouns ("Send me the download"). Verbs and prepositions are regularly thrown together to become new nouns or ...

Barry Baddock, Horst Messerschmidt, Ulrich Rüffin, 2002

Geolinguistics

Weblish, the shorthand form of English used in text messaging and e-mail communications, is represented by words like CYA (see you), GR8 (great), and WAN2TLK (want to talk). Jeremy Butterfield says that the sheer weight and quality of ...

‎2004

Language and the Internet

Netspeak The term 'Netspeak' is an alternative to 'Netlish', 'Weblish', 'Internet language', 'cyberspeak', 'electronic discourse', 'electronic language', 'interactive written discourse', 'computer-mediated communication' (CMC), and other more ...

David Crystal, 2006

The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...

... addicted UK,2000 webfoot 2a noun 1 a dairy farmer NEW ZEALAND, 2002. racehorse that performs wellona muddy track US, 1951 weblish nounthe informallycoded and abbreviated form of Englishthatis used intext messaging, chat rooms ...

Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007

COMM

... of slang developing with digital and Internet technology. Experts in computermediated communication (Thurlow, Lengel, &Tomic, 2004) explain the unique features of this language, which goes by various names including Weblish, netlingo, ...

Rudolph Verderber, Kathleen Verderber, Deanna Sellnow, 2009

Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi

But Equity itself can only relieve in conformity to, and consistent with law, and is not competent F2 weblish. 2: eefam imrarfee. rights; as. they are éeaeminated W.' moral writers, however founded in natural right. After a decision nncnmasa ...

Mississippi. Supreme Court, 1834

Hybrid Learning and Education: First International ...

... 2) the analysis accounts for certain unique features of the technology- enhanced classroom FTF discourse and the online CMC discourse in relation to hypermedia or hypertext, (a)synchronicity, netiquette and the use of Netlish/ Weblish (as in ...

Joseph Fong, Reggie Kwan, Fu Lee Wang, 2008

Corpus Linguistics and the Web

To be able to evaluate the impact that 'weblish' or'netspeak' are having on our language use we have to gain a better understanding of the (fairly elusive) phenomenon itself. Open questions in this field are whether the English part of the www ...

Marianne Hundt, Nadja Nesselhauf, Carolin Biewer, 2007

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEBLISH»

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8 Writing Rules for Entrepreneurs

Avoid frankenwords, weblish and words pretending to be something they're not. Frankenwords are words weirdly bolted together to create stiff, bizarre versions ... «Entrepreneur, Sep 14»

エアコンよりエコ、プラスワン機能付き“扇風機”が売れています！ 『ｄｉｎｏｓ …

http://webcatalog.dinos.co.jp/weblish/dinos/C199127/index.shtml?utm_source=campaign_C5&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=C52001&rw=1&rep=1 «PR TIMES, Jul 12»

天然素材100％の風合いを生かしたファッション性と 上質なカジュアル感 …

http://webcatalog.dinos.co.jp/weblish/dinos/D250127/index.shtml?rep=1 ※記事・画像のお貸し出しについては、下記担当者までお気軽に お問い合わせください。 «PR TIMES, May 12»

Can we get a trade-in? LeBron, Lilo, Anna Chapman

We've got Andrea Peyser's predictable lamentations on the topic of entitled Hollywood girlhood ("No, LiLo, F*** U!" is the ladylike Weblish of the headline), and a ... «Capital New York, Jul 10»

Weblish Spoken Here

Blog, folksonomy, wiki and other words coined by geeks and netizens are among the most irritating new "Weblish" words, according to a recent poll. Meanwhile ... «Huffington Post, Jun 07»