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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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We often talk about the Internet as if it has its own dialect. But is it true that there is a single, unified “netspeak”? New research from Jacob Eisenstein (Interactive Computing) suggests that rather than collapsing online verbiage into undifferentiated “netspeak,” social media tends to reproduce the fault lines in regular spoken language.
