Talk:Internet slang

Net Jargon should be merged with Jargon. The actual list needs to be separated in to somewhere like List Of Slang Words.

Totally disagree. Net Jargon is so very extensive, and has so many terms in it that simply never appear off the net, that it is a totally distinct thing. The point of a jargon is that it is a distinct thing, like a dialect or pidgin, and words in one jargon are strongly connected to each other, and very NOT connected to words in other jargons.

It is a very big disservice to the users to force them to read a massive article that is mostly about net jargon, if they are daily encountering military jargon or hospital jargon or other things that make peoples' lives harder in real life. So each of these needs its own article, with a sort of survival guide so that they can print out the page and go to the military base or hospital and not be totally confused.

A list is not encyclopedic but there are advantages to having it that outweigh the disadvantages. However, the actual article should focus on describing what Jargon is. Angela

Yes, which is why a very specific jargon like net jargon needs its own article. It's like spam... once you let a little of it in your breakfast, you have proven you will eat spam, and so more and more will find its way into your breakfast each day. I think the one short paragraph to list the most common/necessary net jargon words in jargon, and then send those who care away to another article, best serves the people who are encountering an entirely different jargon in daily life.

We are not a survival guide. This is an encyclopedia. We need to say what jargon is, not politicise it. Angela

Jargon is inherently political. It enables a clique or network that knows it, and disables outsiders. You are right that the jargon article must just say this, and it does. All the more reason to let it JUST say this, and leave the long lists of specific jargon to other articles. But you can't avoiding having them. For instance medical terms like their use of "bed" to mean "a space you stay in while waiting for help or while healing" or Christian terms like "Angel" or "God", are their own jargon.

No, this is not a general purpose survival guide. But just as articles are included on "how to use the SEW", there must be articles on "how to know which jargon you are hearing" and some lists of the most common terms. These are just ordinary rendezvous concerns. Without dealing with them, you never really get the user in a position to learn more...