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The impact of computer and internet on everyday language

In the twenty‐first century, there are between 6000 and 8000 different
languages spoken in the world, all of which are in a continuous state of evolving,
by inter‐mixing or stagnating, growing or contracting. The people are
communicating in written form as never before. Truncated turns of phrase and
space or keystroke, efficient emoticons, and acronyms have become mainstream.
As we can see all around us, the computers are dominating all interaction
forms. The computer languages are the most efficient pattern to transmit
informations between sources and receptors. The complexity of activities and the
short reaction time determines an adaptation of our languages.
Social media applications have a tremendous influence in direction of
shortening words, expressions and create acronyms and abbreviations. You might
notice how many of these "new" words are actually just appropriated, meaning
they are pre-existing words that are combined or given entirely new meanings. For
example, "social network" became a word in the Oxford English Dictionary back
in 1973, referring to the physical activity of networking in a social atmosphere.
Phrases such as “rolling on the floor laughing” or “talk to you later” are quickly
changed to “ROFL” or “TTYL.” These short acronyms creep up in everyday
language, proving that sometimes words, when put together, can make you “LOL”
or “laugh out loud.”
It’s a matter of fact that social media is transforming the way that language
is looked at and used. Its hold over language usage is evident in the amount of
communications we have daily, the number of people with whom we communicate
and the nature and style with which we choose to communicate.
There can be no denying that social media has a significant impact on the
ways that we communicate. Its ever-evolving nature leaves our language in a
continuous state of alteration and regeneration.

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 Documentary sources:
https://minerva.usc.es/The influence of social media in language change
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/understanding-language-social-media
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/PRR-10-2021-0060/full/html

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