Across the World Wide Web, it’s invariably apparent that a user’s vernacular has evolved–devolved, rather–insofar as introducing new words to describe and replace certain terms.
The oversimplification of language permeates online communication.
Dating back to prior to the turn of the 21st century–well before current web and social media interfaces became ubiquitous–The New York Times reported how the Internet prompted people to be ungrammatical like anytime previously.
“What the Internet has done is create a space for language that runs and slips over the boundary of public and private language,” James J. O’Donnell, Author of Avatar of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace, told the Times.