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How language shapes the way we think by Lera Boroditsky
“Weird Al” Yankovic: “Word Crimes”
The use of Malaysian English lexical items in the IRC international
Conversational Analysis of Internet Chat: Linguistics characteristics and interaction
Turn-taking in Internet Chat

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