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English and Technology

As a living language, English has gone through a process of drastic changes due to the various influences of scribal traditions and printing conventions throughout history. The remarkable flexibility of English language, which has permitted such changes, has given English its present status as a language, which has gained world wide acceptance as a medium of communication or a lingua franca. The development of technology and the advent of computers and Internet have brought about further changes in English language. People tend to use English for communicative purposes through the relatively modern electronic channels with unconventional ways. Thus with the arrival of digitally mediated modes of communication English language experienced a sudden shift from its syntactic and orthographic conventions forming new varieties of digital discourses.