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NETGLISH

Internet + English = Netglish

Next Generation of text messaging the online-shorthand and acronyms aka NETGLISH coming down the pipeline for chatters, texters and emailers. Where do we go from IMHO and BRB? All of the list is timely, some of it is dumb, and much of it is funny and somewhat useful with entries like:

If you want to learn texting lingo fast (some phones offer a menu of phrases), check with your cellphone carriers; it's quite possible Sprint, Verizon, etc. has a guide for parents and others getting up to speed quickly. Web resources include Lingo2word.com and netlingo.com.

Learn Top Ten Languages Used on the Net. More than 80% of all home pages on the web are written in English.

*The following lists the top ten language in use on the Internet, and how rapidly they grew from 2000 to 2005.
Given how little the .com boomers paid attention to the fact the Internet had already reached 50% of the United States back when, I should warn you that NONE of the listings below can double the percentage again once they have gotten close to 50% penetration!
I know this seems obvious, but somehow all those billionaires in the .com boom figured out a way to miss it, went down in flames!

Take English, for example:

At a 28% penetration level, even if you managed to get every one of the English speaking people in the world on the Internet from 2005-2010, the next such study could NOT show two more doublings of this percentage. . .at 25% you will just barely theoretically be able to double twice more, but that's only theoretically.

China, at just over 9% could double only three more times, but a fourth doubling would be impossible. . .however, just ONE double from now will likely put Chinese ahead of English as the default language of the most Internet users.

Chinese Doubling
 9%
18%
36%
72%

Even Dutch, at only 1.5% of the world, can never double again, as their penetration is already well over 50%, as are various Scandinavian languages that have high penetration but too low a population to make such charts.

Taken mainly from: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
The Top Ten Languages Used in the Web
(Number of Users of the Internet by Language)

972,828,001  World Internet Users, All Languages 100%                

% of all World Internet Users 6,420,102,722       

World Population Estimate for All Languages

776,280,399       World Internet Users, Top Ten Languages
79.8%   Top Ten % of all World Internet Users
3,809,997,729       World Population Estimate for Top Ten Languages
6,420,102,722       World Population Estimate for All Languages
20.4%        Internet Penetration of Top Ten Languages
138.3%       Internet Growth For Top Ten Languages (2000 - 2005)
196,547,602       World Internet Users, Other Languages
20.2%       Other Language % of all World Internet Users
2,610,104,993      World Population Estimate for Other Languages
6,420,102,722        World Population Estimate for All Languages
7.5%        Internet Penetration of Other Languages
459.0%       Internet Growth For Other Language (2000 - 2005)
(*)  NOTES: (1) Internet Top Ten Languages Usage Stats were updated on November  30,  2005. (2) Internet Penetration is the ratio between the sum  of  Internet  users  speaking a language and the total population estimate  that  speaks  that  referred  language.  (3) The most recent Internet    usage   information   comes   from   data   published   by Nielsen//NetRatings,  International Telecommunications Union, Computer Industry  Almanac,  and  other  reliable sources. (4) World population information   comes  from  the  world  gazetteer  web  site.  (5)  For definitions and navigation help, see the Site Surfing Guide. (6) Stats may  be cited, stating the source and establishing an active link back to  Internet  World  Stats.  )Copyright 2005, Miniwatts International, Ltd. All rights reserved.

Examples for data interpretation:
-  There  are  62,959,431  Spanish speaking people using the Internet, this represents 6.5 % of all the Internet users.
-  Out  of  the  estimated  389,587,559  world  population that speaks Spanish, 16.2 % use the Internet.
-  The  number of Spanish Speaking Internet Users has grown 159.7 % in the last five years (2000-2005).

United States
296,208,476  Population  (Est. 2005)
203,576,811  Internet Users
68.7%        % Population (Penetration)
90.8 %       % Users in North America
113.5 %      % Use Growth ( 2000-2005 )

NOTES:
(1) Internet Usage and Population Statistics for North America were updated on November 21, 2005.
(2) CLICK on country names to see detailed data for individual countries and regions.
(3) Population numbers are based on data contained in world gazetteer.
(4) The most recent usage comes mainly from data published by Nielsen//NetRatings, ITU , and other local sources.
(5) Data on this site may be cited, giving due credit and establishing an active link back to Internet World Stats .
(6) For definitions and help, see the site surfing guide. )Copyright 2005, Miniwatts International, Ltd. All rights
reserved.

Also From: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Listing by Continent, in alphabetica order:
World Internet Statistics
6,420,102,722       World Population (Est. 2005)
Current World Population
[Available Weekly in PT1b of the Project Gutenberg Newsletter]
100%      Population % of World
972,828,001      Internet Usage
15.2%      % Population (Penetration)
100.0%      Usage % of World
169.5%      Usage Growth 2000-2005

Africa Internet Statistics
896,721,874      Africa Population (Est. 2005)
14.0%      Africa's Population % of World
23,917,500      African Internet Usage
2.7%      % African Population (Penetration)
2.5%      African Usage % of World
429.8%      African Usage Growth 2000-2005

Asia Internet Statistics
3,622,994,130      Asian Population (Est. 2005)
56.4%      Asian Population % of World
332,590,713      Asian Internet Usage
9.2%      % Asian Population (Penetration)
34.2%      Asian Usage % of World
191.0%      Asian Usage Growth 2000-2005

Europe Internet Statistics
804,574,696      European Population (Est. 2005)
12.5%      European Population % of World
285,408,118      European Internet Usage
35.5%      % European Population (Penetration)
29.3%      European Usage % of World
171.6%      European Usage Growth 2000-2005

Middle East Internet Statistics
187,258,006  Middle Eastern Population (Est. 2005)
2.9%  Middle Eastern Population % of World
16,163,500 Middle Eastern Internet Usage
8.6%      % Middle Eastern Population (Penetration)
1.7%      Middle Eastern Usage % of World
392.1%      Middle Eastern Usage Growth 2000-2005

North America Internet Statistics
328,387,059  North American Population (Est. 2005)
5.1%     North American Population % of World
224,103,811     North American Internet Usage
68.2%      % North American Population (Penetration)
23.0%      North American Usage % of World
107.3%      North American Usage Growth 2000-2005

Latin America/Caribbean Internet Statistics
546,723,509   Latin America/Caribbean Population (Est. 2005)
8.5%   Latin America/Caribbean Population % of World
72,953,597    Latin America/Caribbean Internet Usage
13.3%    % Latin America/Caribbean Population (Penetration)
7.5%    Latin America/Caribbean Usage % of World
303.8%    Latin America/Caribbean Usage Growth 2000-2005

Oceania / Australia Internet Statistics
33,443,448     Oceanian / Australian Population (Est. 2005)
0.5%     Oceanian / Australian Population % of World
17,690,762     Oceanian / Australian Internet Usage
52.9%      % Oceanian / Australian Population (Penetration)
1.8%      Oceanian / Australian Usage % of World
132.2%      Oceanian / Australian Usage Growth 2000-2005

NOTES:
(1) Internet Usage and World Population Statistics were updated on November 21, 2005.
(2) CLICK on each world region for detailed regional information.
(3) Demographic (Population) numbers are based on data contained in the world-gazetteer website.
(4) Internet usage information comes from data published by Nielsen//NetRatings, by the International Telecommunications Union, by local NICs, and by other other reliable sources.
(5) For definitions, disclaimer, and navigation help, see the Site Surfing Guide.
(6) Information from this site may be cited, giving due credit and establishing an active link back to www.internetworldstats.com.

Internet + English = Netglish

 

 

 

Internet + English = Netglish

SABE - Standard American- British English
OVE - Oral and Vernacular Englishes
ICE - International Colloquial English

"Hinglish"; reference found on the LINGUIST List
A Hindi-English Jumble, Spoken By 350 Million

BBC NEWS Friday, 23 March, 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1235000/1235945.stm

 

"It's English Jim.. but not as we know it"

A picture may be worth a thousand words. But economists have now come up with an exact value for the English language in the internet age.
The language of Milton and Shakespeare - or more to the point the Spice Girls and Bill Gates - is now worth an estimated $7.815 billion.

What's worth what? (estimated billions)

English - $7.815
Japanese - $4.240
German - $2.555
Spanish - $1.789
Source: Interbrand

Nine out of ten computers connected to the internet are located in English-speaking countries and more than 80% of all home pages on the web are written in English.

More than four fifths of all international organisations use English as either their main or one of their main operating languages.

At the moment no other language comes anywhere near English. The next biggest is German. But less than 5% of web home pages are in German.

Word Power
According to Oxford University Professor Jean Aitchison - there is nothing about the language which makes it particularly useful as a world language. Much more important is the economic and political power of the USA.
"At one time French was the language of power and prestige," she says, "and Latin was also widely admired as fixed and firm."
The rise of English, she says, is "all about the power of the people who speak it" - first as the language of the British Empire and now, in a slightly different form, of American corporations, advertising and pop culture.
It is estimated that more than half the world population will be "competent" in English by the year 2050. But it is likely that this new form of "World Speak" English will be very different to the language we understand now.
You and I have to love long long. It is I get to road to you cleared face.

"Good Morning" in Konglish for use by South Korean EFL/ESL students

Experts already classify the use of English around the world in three ways:

Standard American-British English - also known as SABE. This is the "native" English as used in the USA, UK, Australia and the rest of the English speaking-world.

Oral and Vernacular Englishes - known as OVE. These are mixtures of English and local languages, or versions of local languages incorporating lots of English "pop" or commercial phrases. Examples including Konglish - an amalgam of Korean and American slang, Singapore Colloquial English (Singlish) Singlish and Chinglish (Singaporean English and Chinese English). According to experts there are "hundreds" of other examples, including Japlish and Denglish.

International Colloquial English, or ICE - a rapidly mutating "world" language based on English but borrowing large numbers of words from other languages as well as American "street" slang and text messaging-style abbreviations and even symbols.

Professor Eugene Eoyang of Lingnan University in Hong Kong says that ICE "has the potential" to evolve into a World Language. OVE-type languages like "Konglish", meanwhile might develop into a new set of national languages, just as English, German and French developed in the middle ages from a mixture of Latin and local languages.

Some of the most far-reaching claims about English and the internet come from David Crystal, editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.

"Singlish"
Action (verb) Changed to mean "showing off" as in: "That man always like to action, walking around with his Rolex over his shirt sleeves."
Arrow (verb) Has come to mean work you don't want to do that you don't want to do. Example:" I was arrowed to paint this wall".
Havoc (adj) Meaning wild and uncontrollable. Example: "That person is very havoc, always out late every night".

Possibilities

Crystal says the internet represents the biggest change in communication in the whole of human history. Changes underway, he says, "are immensely bigger" than those which followed the invention of the printing press.
The new technology, he adds, is causing a "revolution" in human communication to rank alongside the advent of human speech itself.
"So far we have been communicating in speech, writing and with sign language. But the internet is neither speech nor writing. It has aspects of both and represents a new form."
E-mail, he says, is not merely a faster way of sending letters. It is "brand new - a dialogue between two or more people happening instantly. There is no example from human history of anything like this happening before".
Crystal believes that it will affect the way in which people communicate and may eventually lead to entirely new forms of communication.
"The opportunities are immense," he says.
On-line chat, he adds, is also an "entirely new" type of communication.
"There has never been a case where a person could pay equal attention to what thirty people are saying all at the same time.
Speed
"People who use chat-rooms a lot can already conduct two or three conversations simultaneously. That is completely unprecedented."
The web itself, Crystal says, is a "new form".
"If you look at a page in a book, go away and then return to it will still be the same. A web page can change - there are all sorts of possibilities" .
English, as the leading language of the internet, is already changing with increasing speed.
Crystal estimates that the vocabulary of ICE-type "World English" is increasing at the rate of at least 5,000 new words every year.
"Change is so fast," he says, "that attempts by the Oxford English Dictionary to record and codify all the new words and ways in which they are trailing way behind. They can't keep up. Nobody could."
"The fact is that the English-speaking countries have given up ownership of English.
"There's no turning back - English is a world language now".

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