Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet dialect,' as it were.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.