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How english has changed through technology

Cause 1-usage of phones as communication:


 * there has been a spike in the usage of abbreviations in order to convey meaning.
 * Written English is starting to look more like spoken English in order to transfer rawness into text form.
 * Such examples of text messaging abbreviations include lol, omg, and pls have been introduced into common parlance.
 * In order to help maintain the efficacy of meaning with less characters, emojis have been introduced, furthering texting as a universal and emotional affair.
 * Such effects have been possible because of the democratic nature of english

Cause 2- Globalization

Cause 3- changes in syntax
 * Due to an increasing standardization of human society, courtesy of the internet, more people are starting to learn English
 * English has become a predominant force in international relations, such as business and advertising.
 * Since English is lingua franca in areas such as the EU, it has adapted in order to accommodate speakers of other tongues, such as touristic(from French tourisitque).
 * Due to Globalization, English has been instated in order to weed out pidgin dialects, such as Singlish in singapore, Standard english is now necessary in order for a country to get ahead in the world stage.
 * Pidgin dialects have been created in order to accomodate for the various groups of people.


 * word have gained new meaning, such as traffic now having connotations of transfer of data across the web
 * Memes had allowed ideas in English to spread around the world.
 * Due to the advent of monopolies on industries such as internet search, terms like google have developed into verbs
 * New words such as selfie have been coined in order to describe the increasingly popular pastime of taking self-portraits of one's self.