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Time To Change The Language Of The Internet (horsesaysinternet.com)
1 point by oscar-the-horse on Nov 28, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


It seems natural that we will progress towards a single written language now that the world is connected. If we take the US as a model, people used to have defined accents and as time has progressed those accents have fallen to the wayside and gave way to what we call TV English. Most of my generation (born 1974) speak TV English but the generations before that had heavier regional accents and colloquialisms.

Now granted this is spoken language but I would venture to guess that the same thing happens to written language as it disperses around the globe. The funny part is that the language is becoming a hybrid of these new internet words and our historical language.

Which makes one wonder will the written language as it evolves on the internet, replace our regional writings. Such as the case with China where all dialects are mutually intelligible when written but mutually unintelligible when spoken. As time passes it is bound to evolve as more people work and collaborate across the globe, new ideas will be expressed with new words that are created in different parts of the world and adopted as the word for the idea in others.


I think so. I've seen a lot of animals on my farm use the American styling of "z" rather than "s" when spelling.

Also, cliques picking up habits from each other, even if they're geographically widely distributed.




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