[Air-l] typos in chat

[joshua raclaw]

Hey Kris,

I'd guess that it stems from the traditional use of an asterisk in writing to
note a kind of footnote/follow-up/afterthought, though placed in CMD on the
correction rather than the trouble source since you can't typically mess around
with anything already in the chat box (or IM box, or MMO-chat box [and probably
other boxes?  by the by, do people even do repair in SMS?]).

I've seen the asterisk placed right before the correction (*good) and right
after (good*) - same with the placement of other, similar repair markers - so
if this is where this stems from, it's up and gone through a little shifting
for some speakers.

Take care!

Joshua



Joshua Raclaw - PhD student
Department of Linguistics
Culture, Language & Social Practice
University of Colorado at Boulder
http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/


Quoting Kris Markman <krism at alumni.utexas.net>:

* Does anybody know (or have any guesses about) the origin of using an
* asterisk to denote the correction of a typo in chat (and possibly
* other forms of CMC)? I.e.:
*
* SIDNEY: sounds god
* REBECA: I feel like i have some kind of goal now!
* SIDNEY: good*
*
* Thanks!
* -Kris
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