David Crystal - How is the internet changing language today?

[TheLogicJunkie]

David Crystal is awesome. I have the newest edition of his Encyclopedia of Language. It's a pure joy to read.

[MadTyroll]

I love the transcribe audio option, you get some really interesting quotes like:

"when clinton came in in the fourteen hundreds"

"when the intimate came into being"

"his chart rooms as virtual world sleeveless dungeons and dragons games people play" -> I spent much of my youth with those sleeveless games!

"you chew" -> youtube

"you can see asians not really new punctuation yesterday to the uh... you do certainly get ...new... features of punctuation riding on the internet"

"federal waste"

[avrildayromance]

Wow, I'm amazed. I'd never thought that such an old person would now so much about the internet! Plus, he's absolutely right!

LOL!

[gregg4]

He said 'mediums' not 'media'. 1:58

I like this guy.

[epmonash]

thanks alot.. this helped with my assignment !!

[CraigBeige]

Think he kinda underplays or is not aware of the depth of some slang online. On some areas of the web it's almost a dialect and pretty unintelligible to noobs.

[sbelanto]

The most equally international places on the web are the ones where Esperanto is spoken: search for soc.culture.esperanto, for example. Esperanto has exploded on the Net, where people rely on direct, immediate communication in a single language where all speak and contribute as equals. It's the Internet's *global* nature which has nurtured this. The more the Internet grows from its American roots, the richer its international participation, the greater need for such a quickly mastered language.

[sbelanto]

The most equally international places on the web are the ones where Esperanto is spoken: search for soc.culture.esperanto, or example. Esperanto has exploded on the Net, where people rely on direct, immediate communication in a single languages where all speak and contribute as equals. It's the Internet's *global* nature which has nurtured this. The more the Internet grows from its American roots, the richer its international participation, the greater need for such a quickly mastered language.

[robo12215]

where did this originally come from?? i need to reference it for my work

[jayjaypen2]

I'm not sure that "language has become expressively richer as a result of the internet". I think its richness has remained the same, but that its richness comes from a more explicit visual style (with emoticons etc) and less of an implicit one (through the connotations of words etc).

[sinblesser]

emoticons!

[Cabahomi]

fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!

[hassanrouijel]

Every technological invention has got an impact on language. The internet, however, seems to be the most influential technological invention on language.

[dinobubbles]

thanks, this helped with homework ^__^

[fishyfishy72]

we r internet

[eteacher100]

okay