How Email and Internet Technology are Reinventing English

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How Email and Internet Technology are Reinventing English
Email and internet technology is reinventing English as a language of concision. This is because email encourages users to provide quick and efficient blocks of information to. Though English has the largest vocabulary and its non gendered nouns make it especially flexible, the atmosphere of an email world makes different demands of text.
One effect of this change in English is the shortening of the average sentence. Or, to demonstrate the idiomatic cyberspace thought: email sentences are shorter. The traditionally more florid, fluid and nuanced sentence with its fifty point words have come to appear extraneous rich in supporting inference when in fact the writer of an email need...

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Email is making people use language in a new way that is better for controlling information and meaning. These changes are not to be feared and are morally neutral, adapting to the technologies that shape our culture. Thinking and writing more concisely is a practical way to be and perhaps more honest as well because the manipulation of language is itself not the distracting spectacle it used to be.
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