“…Researchers have used varieties of terms to refer to the language used by youngsters in the electronic communication. 'electronic discourse' (Davis & Brewer, 1997;Panckhurst, 2006), 'electronic language' (Collot & Belmore, 1996), 'Computer Mediated Communication' (Herring, 1996), 'interactive written discourse' (Werry, 1996), 'Netlish', 'Weblish', 'Internet language', 'cyberspeak', 'netling' (Thurlow, 2001), 'cyberlanguage' (MacFadyen, Roche, & Doff, 2004), 'netspeak' (Thurlow, 2001;Crystal, 2006), and 'virtual language' (Pop, 2008).…”