An attempt to analyze and understand the effect of electronic communication and the Internet on the English language as demonstrated by e-mail and Internet users at Dartmouth College.

A table of contents for your browsing pleasure:

• Introduction: Exploring the paralanguage of the Internet and its effects on the idiolects (both spoken and written) of users at Dartmouth.
  
• Textual Tone of Voice: Style and tone, the Paralanguage of the Internet infiltrates the Dartmouth community.
  
• Dartmouth: A campus-wide Blitzmail addiction is more than it appears.
  
• Grammar... or something: Internet grammar, morphology, orthography, etc. at Dartmouth
  
• Emotives: Seeing stars? The Internet lexicons which create body-language of electronic text.
  
• Acronyms and Changes in meaning: A Lexicon of Internet Short-hand.
  
• Quotes!: Some amusing statements from Blitzmail and Internet users.
• The Blitzmail Questionaire: The questionaire is now closed, but feel free to take a look at it.
  
• Conclusion and findings: An attempt to pull everything together.
  
• Contributors and Thank-yous
  
• Bibliography
  
• Feedback: Any comments, questions, contributions, suggestions, or critiques?