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Le point à la fin du SMS: un mauvais signe
(A period at the end of a text: a bad sign)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 5.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | abbreviations, misunderstanding, punctuation, spelling, texting, word/writing
Summary | Texting is becoming very popular among younger people who will soon be getting their smartphone transplanted on their hand. The language of texting is "cool", does not necessarily follow traditional rules, uses phonetics and abbreviations. Moreover, to replace the tone of voice and other nonverbal cues that are lacking in writing, people use emoticons. Now, it seems that adding a period at the end of a text can lead to misunderstandings.
Image Description | Photograph of a businessman walking and looking at his phone
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Le numérique de "A" à"Z" avec Frédéric Martel
(The digital world from "A" to "Z" with Frédéric Martel)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | anglicisms, threat, word/writing
Summary | In his magazine Soft Power, Martel explains the meaning of several expressions related to the digital world such as "digital literacy", "crowfunding", "cloud", "social TV", "Big Data", "unicorn", or "digital empowerment".
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Les «mèmes» plus forts que «Jésus»
("Memes" stronger than "Jesus")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | meme, politics, word/writing
Summary | Google Trends allows people to compare users' searches on different topics. A chart shows the results of two searches: "Jesus" (red curve) and "memes" (blue curve). In September, the blue curve passed the red one, which means that memes were "stronger than Jesus". Google Trends can also be used for political polls. However, the tool is not perfect and has some limitations.
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