Writing has been with us for a long time. We are growing into great writers with the Internet easily accessible to most of us. We communicate very differently, now. Accents are important. Some people spend lots of money to go to schools in New York or Paris to get just the right accent or knowledge. We have specialized into highly technical beings.
Our language
It is remarkable how far we have come just since the Y2K/year 2000 suspicion that just failed to occur. But like many things we have not planned, we have also surfaced inot a world that speaks a language of its own - by that I mean, there are so many ways of speaking English and so many ways of assimilating a particular type of English to suit your sense of style and persona.
Music & Language
For instance, I am amazed by the way that the music group, the BlackEyed Peas, have turned their craft into something of a nich culture. The kind of dance, music associated to their hip-hop, violent thrust, shake your booty music is distinctly their own. Similarly, rap music has also brought new syllables and words to our language. Just a name a few of them - 'Word' to stress or emphasize something. In religion, it would the equivalent to 'Amen,' which might mean I agree at a church service. There are also new ways of greetings like 'Waas up?' or more popularly, "What's up?', which unless miscontrued simply means hello.
Technology's Influence
No matter how you look at it, English is changing and we are learning to use this new English in new forms of communication like blogs, iPads and the second genertion iPad that Steve Jobs is working on. He is simply genius for all the work he is doing. Anyway you look at it, these are exciting times indeed.
