Media: BBC: 'Geek speak' confuses net users
| Submitter: |
Karen Chung
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| Submitter Email: | karchung@ntu.edu.tw |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
General Linguistics |
| Subject Language(s): |
English
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| Media Body: |
BBC News, UK edition Wednesday, 6 April, 2005 'Geek speak' confuses net users The average home computer user is bamboozled by technology jargon which is used to warn people about the most serious security threats online. Many are often left vulnerable because they have no idea what they are supposed to be protecting themselves against, a survey for AOL UK has found. Confusing 'geek speak' used by experts and media included 'phishing', 'rogue dialler', 'Trojan' and 'spyware'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4413155.stm Karen Steffen Chung http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/ |
| Issue Number: | 16.1229 |
| Date Posted: | April 17, 2005 |
