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Jargon of these dictionaries

Some words used in daily life are stereotyped on dictionary-based social networks and a jargon series of these words is formed.

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The most basic page design

Old basic web page design of Ekşi Sözlük, used between the years 2000-2012. (Original capture is exist on Wayback Machine, sozluk.sourtimes.org – March 2, 2008) This page design used has been imitated or modified by some dictionaries.

BKZ

These dictionary sites have some hyperlink types. These hyperlinks are called “bkz“, abbreviation for “bakınız“, can be translated to English as “see“. These hyperlinks are used for  redirecting to another title that is referenced in an entry.

• Görünmez bkz (hidden bkz): A bkz type which isn’t as parenthetical, such as ordinary hyperlinks. Generally used for the titles which are can be exist in a sentence.

• Akıllı bkz (Smart bkz): A bkz type which is generally used when there are titles that can’t be used because they disrupt the sentence structure. The related title is hidden in an asterisk and when the mouse cursor is moved to the asterisk, a text message showing the related title is displayed. Clicking on the asterisk will take you to the title.

• External link: Links to external sites that can be modified to include its text in a sentence.

This article was written by 矢立美月 @ pixiv

General Introduction

Turkey’s first successful social media networks have arised with “dictionary-based social networks” which are exist since 1999. These networks are known as the oldest and most important examples of Web 2.0 in Turkey.