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登陆网站 参加免费试学 英语一对一家教，看网络发展如何改变语言 Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. 　　英语已经在网络上成为全球范围内的通用语言。在此过程中，英语本身也在不断发生着变化。 　　When America emerged from the ashes of a bruising war with Britain 　　1814年英美战争结束后，当美国从废墟中发展起来时，还是个四分五裂的国家。美国辞典编纂家诺亚-韦伯斯特认为，统一语言将会使人们更有凝聚力，并获得新的身份，这有助于美国真正的脱离英国而独立。 　　Websters dictionary, now in its 11th edition, adopted the Americanised spellings familiar today - er instead of re in theatre, dropping the u from colour, and losing the double l from words such as traveller. It also documented new words that were uniquely American such as skunk, opossum, hickory, squash and chowder. 　　《韦氏词典》现在已经是第11版了，它采用我们现在熟悉的美式拼写——theatre中的re变为er，去掉colour中的u，把一些单词中的两个l如traveller变为一个l。词典中也收录了一些美国独有的新词汇，如skunk（臭鼬）, opossum（负鼠）, hickory（山核桃）, squash（南瓜）和 chowder（杂烩）。 　　An American Dictionary of the English Language took 18 years to complete and Webster learned 26 other languages in order to research the etymology of its 70,000 entries. 　　韦伯斯特花了18年时间写成《美国英语词典》，为了研究词典中的70000个单词的词形变化，他学习了26种语言。 　　The internet is creating a similar language evolution, but at a much faster pace. 　　互联网为类似的语言演变创造了一个平台，但速度更快。 　　There are now thought to be some 4.5 billion web pages worldwide. And with half the population of China now on line, many of them are written in Chinese. 　　现在在全球范围内共有45亿个网页。在中国，如今有一半的人都是网民，他们中很多人使用中文上网。 　　Still, some linguists predict that within 10 years English will dominate the internet - but in forms very different to what we accept and recognise as English today. 　　不过一些语言学家预测，10年内英语将成为互联网的主导语言，但形式将和网民今天接受和认可的英语有很大不同。 　　Thats because people who speak English as a second language already outnumber native speakers. And increasingly they use it to communicate with other non-native speakers, particularly on the internet where less attention is paid to grammar and spelling and users dont have to worry about their accent. 　　这是因为将英语作为第二语言的人数已经超过以英语为母语的人数。而且非英语国家的人进行交流时都使用英语，尤其是在互联网上，