The Internet Language Impacting On English

The Internet Language Impacting On English
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Introduction
In the past, following the invention of the television set and use in most of the homes and public spaces, it was coined the global fireplace. A place where every other family that would afford a television set would gather late in the evening and watch till they were ready to sleep. It became the main channel where people would get in touch with the world in the sense that they would get to watch the news from across the world among other aspects such as content created across the globe. The internet and the age of technology have even brought more elements to the aspect of global interconnectivity. It is a platform that exhibited massive potential. Nearly all parts of the society are affected by internet at the personal level and even at a more intricate level such as the government and the military. The internet has created a platform that has massive applications with a good number of most systems running on it (Swartzlander, 2010). One of the most interesting aspects of the internet platform and its creations is the ability to connect with anyone across the globe on a virtual level. Social media platforms are officially a pillar in the society, where people can interact with their friends and loved ones using computer based programs or the more common platform, the mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, smart-watches and laptops.
To pass messages from one user to the next, there is the element of texting which has had ground breaking influence on how interact. Like most modes of communication the internet language has evolved with time, and there is a rise in the use of acronyms which make easier for people to respond fast and with relative ease regardless of where they are or what they are doing. It is this relative need to type messages fast and customize language codes among friends that has borne the element of the internet language (Swartzlander, 2010). The youths are the most affected by the internet language seeing that they spend most of their time on the social media and other messaging platforms. As a result of the growth of the internet language, most of the habits are thus eroding the English language skills relative to written and communication skills. As a result there are concerns amongst most scholars that the internet language is affecting the English language and thus affecting the rest of the learning abilities in other subjects, negatively impacting their academic performance (Yousaf& Ahmed, 2013).
Thesis statement: the internet language is part of the English language evolution
The English language and writing skills
Historically writing skills came much later after people had devised various sounds which they would use a means to communicate. As such, in reference to the general ability of man to write out symbols and signs as a means of communication dates back some five millenniums. This is much later that the use of spoken sounds to make words which came in much earlier around 80 millenniums(McWhorter, 2013). Writing can thus be considered to be an artifice of speech. The basic element in most languages let alone English is that there is an aspect of speech and an aspect writing symbols. The Eng...