To Teet or Not to Teet
Everybody would agree that the Internet is a greatest catalyst for language change and evolution. Professor David Crystal has a wonderful video on that issue, How the Internet is changing language today , on Youtube. We have all seen texting come into being and arouse a lot of debate about its usefulness to the English language. Professor Crystal, again, had a wonderful theory debunking all the myths against texting. As a teacher of English and language practitioner, I could notice similar phenomena happening to language. Although it seems difficult to determine whether these changes are happening to English or to Arabic, I am writing now to highlight these changes and record some observations. Before I go into details of my main argument, it seems opportune to unravel a linguistic discovery: the Internet is not only changing languages, it is also uniting them. To understand this to some depth, we need to acknowledge the fact that technology sometimes dictates the ...