English and vietnamese chat language

Blending is a combination of different words that produces new words. The advantages of the writing style are the collective meaning and the shortness of using words. Chatters make the most of blending and use it widely in the Internet.

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  Chat language is principally used by teenagers.
  
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  Topics which chatters usually discuss are popular, repeated and social such as greetings, friends, family, love, work, study, etc.
  
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  Use emoticons to express emotion and thought. For example:
  

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  In Vietnamese: ###^^^ Mý ngày nay e hộx chẵng dc gì hít trơn á!... pài kiểm tra thỳ dưới trung bình hem hà!!! (;^_^;) nghỹ nại thý tức mình thiệt lun! :)… Kết wả nem hộx này e wóa iếu…  Mẹc dầu e đã cố gắng hít sức cũn chẵng có lợi ích gì…:-( ))))88(((
  
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  In Enghlish: ###^^^ A boring day!  Mayb I’ll fone 4 her. Wot are u doing now, baby? Look f’ward 2 c u soon. Omg, I need u now:( ))))88(((
  

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  Employ symbols on the keyboard effectively in order to send messages such as
  

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  (:()::)  sleepy
  
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  :’-)  scream
  
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  (()):**  embrace and kiss
  
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  !  I have a comment.
  
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  ?  I have a question.
  

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  Chatters attempt to reduce letters as much as they can do. For instance:
  

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  In Vietnamese: những  nhữg
  
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  In Enghlish: what  wat, think  tink
  

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  Have the same purposes:
  

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  Save time when communicating.
  
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  Avoid parental control.
  
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  Want to create a striking style.
  
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  Wish to show off their creativity.
  
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  Use code language to keep their activities private.
  

Vietnamese capitalizes randomly. For example: ngườI iU, e Kòn đóa kHông??!!!! a nHo*’ E nhIU lA(‘m??!!! xAo KO TrA? Lo*`I tIn A?... @1**gg**1@

While communicating, chatters like to create new things individually and do not comply with any specific principles. This makes it difficult for us to have a Vietnamese dictionary of chat language.

English chat language has systematically developed and there are now many dictionaries of chat language, whereas we do not have any Vietnamese dictionary of chat language.

And there are about 70 words using “C” in different situations:

Numbers have meanings and are numerously used. Meanwhile, they are limitedly used in Vietnamese. For instance:

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  In English: you = u, see = c, bye = bi, two = 2…
  
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  In Vietnamese: nó = nóa, nhiều = nhje^`u, những = nhu*~ng…
  

Teachers will have to analyze and explain the harmful impacts of chat language on Vietnamese purity, the utterance and writing style of the students. This will help increase students’ judicious awareness of chat language.

We should also help students to create a habit of using Vietnamese correctly. When they mistake standard language for chat language, Professor Cao Xuan Hao supposes that the best way to correct students’ spelling mistakes is to make students rewrite right words many times so that they can learn them by heart.

In addition, teachers can use the following measures:

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  Let students discuss the topic: Should chat language be used in school?
  
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  Remind students to review their essays or formal piece of writings carefully in order to avoid spelling mistakes. Caution them that abbreviations are not a permitted style of writing in essays in class.
  
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  Take points off if students use chat language in their exams. This will make them more careful and afraid of using chat language.
  
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  Tell students about good and bad sides of using internet, especially when they chat with unknown people.
  

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  Give a general introduction of chat language.
  
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  Do research into the origin of forming English and Vietnamese language chat.
  
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  Mention the basic variants in English and Vietnamese language chat.
  
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  Point out the differences and similarities between Vietnamese and English chat language.
  
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  Discover a type of language which the young people use very often in the Internet. After studying it, we will be able to understand their thought, wish, desire and so on. From that point, we will take appropriate measures to instruct the youth of today to use chat language properly.
  

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  Từ điển Anh-Việt Việt-Anh: Thuật ngữ ngôn ngữ học đối chiếu (Cao Xuân Hạo – Hoàng Dũng).
  
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  http://www.uscash.net/tips/chat.html
  
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  http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=86651
  
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  http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmericanFamily/story?id=2820582&page=1
  
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  http://www.city-net.com/~ched/help/lingo/chatslang.html
  
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  http://www.mapsofworld.com/referrals/internet/internet-services/chat/chat-language.html
  
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  http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/83/1/3.pdf