User:Chuckle 2 self

c2s, an abbreviation for chuckle to self[1][2] or chuckling to self,[3] is a common element of Internet slang. It has widespread use in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication. It is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular chuckling, as text.

USES

c2s has been created for use when moments arise that do not require an audible laugh or "LOL". For example, the mediums in which it can be used are:

- Normal Conversation

- Text messaging

- IM

- Facebook

- MySpace

- Twitter

- Google Talk

Spread from written to spoken communication

c2s and other initialisms have crossed from computer-mediated communication to face-to-face communication. Generation Y now sometimes use them in spoken communication as well as in written, with c2s (pronounced /see-two-ess/), for example. David Crystal—likening the introduction into spoken language in magnitude to the revolution of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the 15th century—states that this is "a brand new variety of language evolving", invented by young people within five years, that "extend[s] the range of the language, the expressiveness [and] the richness of the language". Commentators[who?] disagree, saying that these new words, being abbreviations for existing, long-used, phrases, don't "enrich" anything; they just shorten it.[20][21]

Geoffrey K. Pullum points out that even if interjections such as LOL and ROTFL were to become very common in spoken English, their "total effect on language" would be "utterly trivial".[22]

Conversely, a 2003 study of college students by Naomi Baron found that the use of these initialisms in computer-mediated communication (CMC), specifically in instant messaging, was actually lower than she had expected. The students "used few abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons". The spelling was "reasonably good" and contractions were "not ubiquitous".
== ORIGINS ==
L. John was concerned with the inappropriate use of LOL, thus created c2s for moderately humorous comments that really only require one to 'Chuckle to Self'. It was also found that there was no written way in which to express the emotion of finding somthing amusing, but not outrageously funny.

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