Wow, I've finally found someone who's wordier that I am.
At this point, everything you said is a given. It is unsurprising, and no, it's not solely due to the internet. It's due to business. But the internet has accelerated its pace.
Additionally, I wasn't talking about "destroying English linguistically." You shouldn't quote what isn't a quote. I suppose what I said wasn't clear, but it wasn't anything about English being destroyed. What I was talking about was an internet culture being created with English as its core language. Our culture (American culture) is spreading at the cost of other cultures. We ARE becoming more of a global culture. On the one hand it's nice because I speak English, but on another it saddens me because I don't want complete homogenization.
Sure, we all will retain our various cultures, but more and more our language will be global and it will be based mostly on English. I kind of like the idea that there are things I don't know that I have to invest the time to learn, like other languages. But the quicker spread of information will be useful. Of course there are no more hours in my day in which to absorb even more information. So I'll still be missing out anyway. I suppose the more things change the more the stay the same.
