The Internet is causing the English language to slowly deteriorate. Do you agree or disagree? Thoughts?

Question

id like to congratulate whoever wrote 'which sheepherder thought this one up' for so subtly and unwittingly proving my point..i believe the word is 'shepherd'

Answer 1

The internet and text messaging are having a dramatic impact on language.

My husband is a middle school teacher. Over the last several years there has been a tremendous change in the literacy rate. 7th graders can text message their friends in a few seconds flat but they cannot put together a grammatically correct sentence, write a paragraph, or read at their approriate grade levels.

Answer 2

Yes I agree. It´s not just the Internet, but also the computers we use at work that cause deterioration of not only English, but almost all the languages of the world (except for perhaps the languages spoken in some jungle somewhere, so far). It is so obvious already when looking at the texts on Internet or looking at how people write or hearing people speak nowadays. Especially young people speak quite a different language than let´s say 10 years ago. On the other hand every language on the earth has changed through time of mankind, but now I think everything is just going too fast. But what can we do?

Answer 3

If you are talking about English as a language ,yes . But more people do it a bigger harm in the way they speak. For example the way English is spoken by Spaniards, Italians or even French is all a blow to good old queen's English.
The point then is not to get worried over Internet English. Internet is the fastest way of communicating; so its no damage to English or any other language on Internet
Internet is a great boon and doing a great job. Let it go Godspeed
Let the 'professaries' look after the language!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Disagree. The Internet is causing English to expand, and all languages to start including other languages as well. We are at the beginning of a huge language that might be called "Earthian", which uses all of the languages found on this planet and has lots of subdivisions, like "English".

Answer 6

The internet, I agree, is deteriorating spelling and proper sentence structure, but if this isn't taught in schools and corrected then, the internet isn't the only problem. People also need to read real books to learn new words, learn how to spell and learn how to structure sentences.

Answer 7

The English language is slowly deteriorating, but it has nothing to do with the internet.

Answer 8

Absolutely! I heard that teenagers today actually have a more limited vocabulary than generations past. The internet is great for information accessibility, but I personally am annoyed when you google something, for instance, and it corrects your spelling- it makes me feel less obligated to remember correct spellings. It seems with all the information at your fingertips- you have to do less work remember and applying knowledge- spellings, definitions, quotes since it's all available so easily.

Answer 9

Completely. Have you seen some of the questions on this site? I saw one person using caps lock (cruise control for cool) and zeros instead of O's. ****ing zeros! You really have to try to be that bad.

edit: I'm baffled by how many people disagree! I really thought more people would see my point. Go figure.

Answer 10

I disagree. English evolves, it always has, it is different now from when Mark Twain wrote and much different from when Shakespeare or Milton wrote, and it will be a lot different 100 years from now. Its a good thing, the language adapts to the needs of its users.