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互联网英语
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chapter 9 Internet English
Or language reverts to type
In 1972 the first email was sent.
Soon the Internet arrived
a free global space to share information, ideas
and amusing pictures of cats.
Before then English changed‘ through people
speaking it but the net brought typing back
into fashion and hundreds of cases of
repetitive strain syndrome.
Nobody had ever had to ‘download‘ anything
before,let alone use a ‘toolbar‘
And the only time someone set up a ‘firewall‘,
it ended with a massive insurance claim and a
huge pile of charred wallpaper.
Conversations were getting shorter tan the average
attention span why bother writing a
sentence when an abbreviation would do and
leave you more time to ‘blog‘,poke and
‘reboot ‘when your ‘hard drive ‘crashed?
‘In my humble opinion‘ became ‘IMHO,
‘by the way became BTW and if we‘re
honest that life-threatening accident was pretty
hilarious! simply became fail.
Some changes even passed into spoken English.
For your information people frequently
asked questions like ‘how can ‘LOL mean laugh out
loud and lots of love? But if you‘re
going to complain about that then UG2BK
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