‘Supplementary Reading ‘THE IMPACT OF COMPUTER AND INTERNET ON EVERYDAY LANGUAGE Internet has revolutionized the whole world, turning it into a global network of people, businesses and governments communicating and interacting with each other through a variety of channels, As a result, new information technologies amplify the volume of information that circulates and reduces distance and time. The term virtual space/ cyber space defines the notion of a world of information present/ possible in a digital form. The potential ofthe Internetis currently limited by its relatively stow speed data transmission and management of sich a large amount of information, but no one ‘can deny the unprecedented scale and importance of it worldwide (which also results from the fact that the capital letter is always used with reference to the Internet phenomenon.) The development of the specialized IT language is corroborated with the elements of cultural and social progress. People, communities and all sorts of ‘organizations rely on computer technology to improve the majority of things in our lives: food, services, entertainment, healthcare, communication, education, ete. Desktops, laptops and mobile devices connect the whole world together by performing multiple operations at once, The world itself became a network and the internet an ‘ocean of information, Communication on the Internet has become a free language thanks to the existence of an IT vocabulary. A now official language was born, a computerized language full of various abbreviations, acronyms and emoticons. A similar phenomenon is present in Romanian language as well where, various technical terms from the field of IT have entered the common language in a process called Anglicisation. Adopting technology related terms gave rise to new vocabularies, new grammatical forms and new ways of speaking and even writing. Nowhere is the effect of this expansion of English, into the new domains, seen more clearly than in Internet communication, With terms like antivirus, avatar, boot, restart, hard disk, download, upload, update, bookmark, browser or web navigator, web software, blog, etc. English became a kind of net English When it comes to lexical change, technology is always a good place to start with. Internet language gave rise to a lot of neologisms and expressions that have become ‘common. An idiomatic expression such as mouse potato for example, is used to designate a person who spends a lot of time in front of the computer. The term google, ‘once used as a noun to designate the name of a popular online search engine has ‘changed its grammatical value into a verb, Nowadays, people simply say: Why don’t you google this? Stop bothering me with so many questions! You have Google for this! Some ‘even say that people who google a lot are google-minded, The formation of the new words is not a random process because linguistic ‘expressions take new forms through compounding as in the case of mouse potato, which joins together two or more existing words to make one word. Couch surfing or couch suyferis used to refer to travelling on a low budget by using a broad network of contacts 130in order to get overnight accommodation for free. Such terms have become registered trademarks of the website and are written under the following form: CouchSurfing and CouchSurfer being used by people all over the world on a regular basis. Abreviations and acronyms are another category of terms derived from computer terminology. Thus, phrases become collections of initials which are commonly used in internet chat but have lost their technical specification, Words like emoticons (emotion and icon), E-zine (electronic magazine), E- commerce (electronic commerce), E-signature, spyware (spy and software), wetcam (web which comes from World Wide Web and camera) and are words that already exist in the language but combine two words together in order to describe new creations. Studying language and technology it becomes obvious that technology influences the use of language. The actual wide use of (net)English tends to divide the world into Internet users and Internet illiterates, Within the Internet literature, terminology usually varies when discussing the different kinds of Internet situation, such as environment and virtual space, In its broadest sense, language includes notiors of speech and writing, regional and class dialects, occupational genres (such as legal and scientific language), creative linguistic expressions (as in literature), and a wide range of other styles of expression. Spoken language has only a limited presence on the Internet, through the use of sound clips, films, and videos; but, the use of speech will undoubtedly grow as technology develops. It will not be too long before we shall see the routine use of interactive voice and video dialogues to provide a spoken representation of what we can see on a screen or giving vocal support to a graphic presentation, and automatic spsech recognition to enable users to interact verbally between sites. Grammatical, lexical, and discourse features play a distinctive role in all spoken varieties of a language, as they do in written communication. The term Netspeak is an alternative to Netlish, Weblish, Internet language, cyberspeak, electronic discourse or electronic language, interactive written discourse, computer-mediated communication and other odd expressions, Each term has a different implication: Nettish, for example, has derived from English but it has no direct implication as the Net becomes more multilingual. Netspeak is a type of language displaying features that are unique te the Internet where the influence is mainly on vocabulary (with the possibility of becomng a new type of linguistic communication), Al these examples prove that technology and language are continually evolving and that Internet is an essential tool for communication which shall not cease to exist. English has become the dominant language of the Internet and, itis obvious that, in the process of globalization itis impossible to stop the process of new words’ formation,