ABSTRACT
The English language is probably changing now more rapidly than it was in Orwell’s time. The internet is altering the way we absorb information and accelerating the globalisation of the language. Another new influence is texting. Most schoolchildren have mobile phones and seem to text each other all the time, in a specialist version of the language that has been invented in just a few years. Recently, a government minister urged parents to learn text language so that they can join in and communicate with their children more easily.
