HOW THE INTERNET IS CHANGING THE WAY WE

COMMUNICATE - INTERNETSLANGS.NET As a linguist and an ex-English teacher, the evolution of language has

always fascinated me. Since the 15th century, the English language has

evolved under the influence of technology but I would argue that this has

been more in terms of style than structural changes to the language. The

first big change came in the 15th century with the use of printing presses

which introduced new standardised grammar, spelling and punctuation

styles internet slangs. In the 19th century, telephony brought in new

patterns of dialogue as people could speak to each other at greater

distances.

Radio and TV broadcasting in the early 20th century introduced us to new

styles and brought us sports commentators, chat shows and interviews.

However, it is the internet slangs that has had a massive change both in

the way we speak and how we write English.

Who could have predicted that internet technology would have brought us

so much diversity? For example, just think of the different technologies and

the way we communicate in English using these technologies:

The World Wide Web itself

Email

Chat rooms

Instant messaging

The virtual worlds of games

Blogging

twittering

Mobile phone texting

Social Networking

We do not speak or communicate in the same way when we are blogging as

when we are texting and each technology has its own style of the English

language. These different styles of communication have exploded and will

continue to evolve and you can see it in all forms of online marketing or

offline marketing materials

Whilst the internet has produced some new vocabulary or "internet

slang", there are only a few hundred new English slang words in a language

which has over one million words. So the 20th century slang of "groovy"

and "funky" has given way to phrases like "lol" (laugh out loud), and "brb"

(be right back) in the 21st century - but they are still relatively few.

So, although there are some new punctuation formats, e.g. emoticons, there

have been no significant changes to grammar patterns or verb endings. The

main change has been the style of language that we use when we

communicate.

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1. ROFL

2. TTYL

3. GTM

4. LOL

5. GTH

6. BBYG

7. CYL

8. DP

9. KILLA

10. BUMMER

Lots of purists and people would like to preserve the correct way to speak

English. However, no one can stop trends in style and slang from changing

the way we communicate. Whether it is cave men's drawing on walls,

Internet Slang writing or sending a "tweet" to the other side of the world,

the English language is something that will never be permanent and will be

constantly changed by technology.

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