Twitter is one of the social media that is mostly used by users around the world that called netizens. There are different terms that are commonly found in this social media which are far away from the common language used in daily life. Because of that reason, its terms are called Lingo. Lingo is appears caused by the high number of netizens who use these terms.
The use of Lingo in the middle of social media certainly raises several questions such as the meaning of the word and its formation. Here is a further explanation about Lingo, starting with the Lingo terms that wrote in the poster above, the four terms taken from Twitter consist of,
- OOT
An abbreviation of “out of topic” is used to describe the distinction of the discussion flow in a conversation.
- Fleets
Formed by two words that are flying and tweets blended to be one composition. Used to let netizens post the media that disappear after 24 hours.
- Unfoll
Shaped by clipping the original word of Unfollow that clipped into unfoll which means to discontinue following someone’s feed on social media.
- Retweet
Add the derivational prefix “re-” in front of the “tweet” word formed the new word, retweet. That word indicates to replay posting a post from someone else’s on Twitter.
There are examples of the Lingos used by reading and learning precisely on the poster above.
