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Summary
That the internet invokes profound opportunities for language users to express themselves in unique ways is something that has much being deliberated on by linguists and “varietologists”. The language of the internet is much different from the language used in other domains-Education, Sports, Food processing, Marketing, Advertisement and so on.
This unique use of the language used in the internet has been discussed extensively by different scholars who are interested in unravelling it. Among the peculiar nature of the language used in the new media is the use of numerals. Numerals are employed by internet users to perform several functions - brevity, speed of communication and showcasing communicative creativity which has been discussed excessively in this long Essay.
The most distinctive feature internet English has are it’s flexibility and brevity hence letters and numbers are used frequently in combination to form a special type of abbreviation. That is, we often use numbers to replace combinations of letters in other to reduce the spelling length of the words or expression.
