Lietuviškos raidės elektroniniuose laiškuose
Lithuanian characters in electronic mail

Summary/Abstract: The paper introduces the results of a survey on using Lithuanian characters in electronic mail. They have helped define the existing situation, attitudes of educated people (who have completed higher education studies or their major part) towards (not) writing Lithuanian characters in electronic mail.Habits of writing Lithuanian characters vary. As can be seen from the survey results, for most people (not) writing Lithuanian characters in their electronic mail depends on the nature of the letter, the addressee and computer programmes. The main reasons for not writing Lithuanian characters so far have been still concerned with technical problems and insufficient information provided to the society on computers and the internet. Thus responsible institutions ought to give more attention to this issue.The respondents have also expressed rather contradictory attitudes towards using Lithuanian characters on the internet. Most adhere to the opinion that writing without Lithuanian characters does not cause difficulties in text comprehension; however, many respondents have expressed rather negative attitudes to such writing and pointed out its negative impact on literacy and language.

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