HOW THE INTERNET INFLUENCES IN THE LANGUAGES

The other day, we saw that video in class of David Crystal on the influence of the Internet in languages, especially English. So far I had not thought this really the case, but if we look closely, we are at a time when the electronic devices dominate the progress, our mark on history revolves around the Internet and technologies. 

On many occasions, and virally on the Internet, we have seen babies who give a paper magazine and try to enlarge the images as if it were an iPad, this is because we are in the era of new technologies, and the latest generation doesn’t know a world without the Internet. Digital communication is a fact that we all accept and generally considered positive as it facilitates the transmission of messages and information immediately and free.

Children known as Generation Z, born after 1995, have learned to communicate more touch than with real interactions, and is also very typical of their language expression through graphics as emoticons or abbreviations that represent, joining several punctuation as can be these: ": ) " ": = )".

In 2006 at the University of Lancaster, professor and researcher Tony McEnery concluded that the Generation Z had a vocabulary of 12.600 words, while young people aged 25 to 34 had almost twice 21.400 words. This lack of vocabulary abounds in simple phrases, abbreviations or phonetic symbols that keep repeating and involving degradation in language. The tendency to send short messages increasingly prevents reflective textual planning and therefore the lexical language development.

Some people think that this is a worsening or backward for language, but on the other hand, there are people who think that this is only an advance, which form apart of our time and that is what characterizes our moment

I opted for the second opinion, and you? What do you think?