Is there a downloadable corpus (dictionary/ lexicon) for informal, playful words such as 'gonna', 'LOL', 'wanna' in English?

Question

Please suggest me a downloadable English corpus that contains informal, playful words such as 'gonna', 'LOL' and 'wanna'

Answer 1

Use 'NetLingo'. They have a rich content :)

Answer 2

I don't know such lexicon but you can try to do this, alternatively:

• Get the vocabulary V1 of Twitter or other web and chat corpus.
• Get the vocabulary V2 of literary corpus.

The lexicon you want might be V1 \ V2 i.e. all the words of V1 which are not in V2.

Using Python, NLTK provides corpora (see nltk.corpus.webtext). Moreover, as @mbatchkarov said in the comments: Twitter is full of informal language.