Analysis of Example C: from a Chartroom of the week, Tim Dowling, The Guardian, Thursday 2nd January 2003

Example C, was very context dependent, meaning you have to know the background information on the topic before you can understand what some of the people are saying. For example a person called 'jenni@boughtledger' constantly kept stating 'I'm still Jenni from the block'. This was released in September 26, 2002, meaning you had to of known or heard this song to understand what this character was saying.  This chartroom was also very informal, I knew this because the people were using abbreviated words like 'cos' and 'gonna', this could suggest that the people knew each other as they felt comfortable to use abbreviation to shorten words they were trying to say. I also think the people knew each other because they felt very comfortable to talk about serious topics like 'Saddam Hussein' and 'Micheal Jackson throwin his baby out the window'.This chat also had ellipses like 'any new years resolutions Bronco', this was a conversation starter