The History of English - Internet English (9/10)

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The History of English - Internet English (9/10)

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Exploring the expansion of internet language, with abbreviations like lol and btw.
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@QudosAnimations 12 жыл бұрын

We loved this video so much we featured it in on our blog. Thanks for keeping us entertained and informed with your excellent whiteboard animations!

@pmonX42 10 жыл бұрын

Firewall is a term much older than the internet, originally, albeit uncommonly used to describe walls constructed to stop the spread of furnace fires through a building, then through a ship, then out of the engine compartment of your car

@SansDream6810 12 жыл бұрын

Um didn't Murphy Brown host a news show called FYI....and wasn't Murphy Brown a tv character from before there was internet? My parents taught me a lot of these supposed internet abreviations when I was young to help me take notes in class

@OpenLearn_OU 11 жыл бұрын

Hi Katherine You're more than welcome to share or embed this video. Just click on the 'Share' button for the link or embed code. :)

@1nayrp 12 жыл бұрын

The video is about changing the language by introducing NEW words. Firewall is not a new word, and the sense in which it is used re the internet clearly relates to its real-world usage: a barrier to prevent passage. Many words have different shades of meaning depending on context. The button of a mouse is different than a sewing button, but to say that "button" is therefore a new word when referring to a mouse, is nonsensical. The word is borrowed from another context, but is not new to English.

@opsimathics 13 жыл бұрын

Words like "epic", "fail", "awesome"

@donatj 13 жыл бұрын

The metal separating your engine and the dash in a car is called a firewall.

@Farragox 13 жыл бұрын

@techwiz81 Since Old People. The joke about the mother who thought it meant lots of love, so she sent the text "grandma just died LOL".

@spice0074 3 жыл бұрын

If you see this in 10 years I will be 23 and living in Los Angeles.

@fuzzyone99 12 жыл бұрын

Love the beard and afro @ 0:11.

@JustDreamingLife 11 жыл бұрын

I love these videos!

@PorscheWilliamsformulaone2026 4 ай бұрын

Chapter 9.5 reversed english or how to speak russian!!!

@honeybytes 11 жыл бұрын

Can I use this for our video essay ? PLEAS :((

@dadvoc666 13 жыл бұрын

ILTV! i love this video :D

@AJomar 12 жыл бұрын

i agree in a half and half. there's a lot of grammar freaks now in youtube so...no one types so...dumb anymore. But if someone spells grammer, instead of grammar, and you make a big fuss, then your over-reacting. I mean it's youtube not school, and it's only one character off.

@melloe 13 жыл бұрын

i'm not sure whether i like the information or just your voice

@AJomar 12 жыл бұрын

maybe we don't say how are you because you don't have to ask. If a person is moaning or crying, wouldn't it be stupid to ask happily "Hello, how are you?" but the two last lines have nothing to do in my words. I only say "err" because I have a losss for words.

@spogelse 13 жыл бұрын

OU FTW.

@EmperorFishFinger 12 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with 'Hey guys, what's up'?

@jrb17bomber 4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was "In My Honest Opinion". Not so?

@JimFattoo7 13 жыл бұрын

this is "win" XD

@IgorTerrible 12 жыл бұрын

Nothing really, I am just being a snobby Brit, haha!

@RedMclaren 13 жыл бұрын

lol

@BroForce426 12 жыл бұрын

if people just use the internet 2 talk instead of talk talk, then UG2BK

@gentlebabarian 9 жыл бұрын

lol is a dutch word

@TayoEXE 7 жыл бұрын

Sometimes people just write incomprehensible English comments here.

@IgorTerrible 12 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, but there's worse- the infinite number of videos on you tube that start with the words 'Hey guys, what's up' - that has to be the most overused and IMHO- ill-placed Americanism. What happened to "Hello, how are you?", it's a shame to reduce everything to the dumbest level, you don't need to be Shakespeare to create a sentence that doesn't y'know- whatever- like- er- y'know- I'm like- kind of- never read a book...