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.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

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.