Conversation in a face to face, or any environment in which you can audibly hear and communicate with another person contains a lot of benefits and eases conversation. I have noticed that certain notions become intuitive when chatting with people versus an audible conversation, and visa versa. When chatting people begin to contemplate how long it takes for responses to be received and why it is taking so long. Users also focus on spelling, and words they use with ease suddenly elude them and must be replaced with a phonetic spelling or something the person might recognize.
Person A (8:45:31 PM): maybe we shouldn't eat the bread
Person A (8:45:31 PM): haha
Person B (8:45:52 PM): yeah it might be kinda gui
Due to common ground, a cs background, each person was able to understand the word gui really was gooey. If a person has no way of spelling the term they are thinking about they just hammer out something that seems close and add an asterisk.
These short cuts are used throughout IM conversation, but every once in a while you might encounter a term that is not apart of your knowledge. However the other user assumes it is apart of common knowledge a continues the conversation as if you understand everything set. This can cause confusion and a gap to form in the conversation. This can only be clarified if someone stops and asks for help understanding. It is from this point that the conversation must be picked up again.
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You used a great example in your post. Everyone in the chat drew from the common knowledge that GUI is pronounced gooey because you all are CS major, or at least have a background in CS. However, I would have liked to see more analysis. What aspects or elements did this chat have that made it efficient? How did you communicate effectively with the lack of cues?
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