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The language usage in the so-called social media shows, in contrast to conventional language usage, additional phenomena. Some frequent of them, besides the fact that standard spelling is not always taken into account, are, above all, contractions, emoticons, and creative spellings.
In the Albanian language used in the social media such word forms, e. g. the abbreviation flm (short form for <ju/të/…> falemnderit, engl. thank you), e. g. the contraction ti (engl. you) instead of t’i (engl. <subjunctive>’<accusative or dative object clitic>), and e. g. the creative spelling e ver8 instead of e vertetë (engl. <it is> true), i. e. 8 stands for tetë (engl. eight), can no longer be omitted in the communication texts. Some of these, which are very common, e. g. flm, can be included in dictionaries, as is the case in extensions and updates of dictionary described in [Author: Title. Published in a journal, somewhere. 201y].
To investigate the topic on an empirical basis, we built four different corpora based on data collected from 2011 to 2021. The data are divided into standard language and nonstandard language. This way makes it easier to investigate the differences between the two forms of language use. Likewise, these aspects can be studied well in a ten-year interval.
Besides the phenomena mentioned above, the different aspects of the language, such as dialect traces of the writers, as well as their spelling or their typing errors are also examined. These linguistic phenomena were examined on large amounts of data from social networks, e. g. Twitter, i. e. corpus-based.
