Friday, January 9, 2009

Ergo Proxy: The Official Language of the Interne

http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/ergo-proxy-the-official-language-of-the-internet/?scp=7&sq=english%20official%20language&st=cse


Interesting fact: Even though English is the dominant language online, two-thirds of Internet users don’t know English. This article details the well known language of "Engrish", a language which mixes certain Asian languages and English. It is very common and major sites, like YouTube hold them. This article shows the importance of English not just in America, but worldwide in what can be argued as the most important form of communication for today's generation. Many countries hold English as the official language and many more hold it as a secondary language. In today's world many more people are becoming bilingual. And for most, one of those languages is English.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it should but in schools other languages should be impleminted

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