It&#x27;d be surprising if the Internet revolution didn&#x27;t drastically alter languages. The printing press did the same, standardizing them and eliminating many font eccentricities that did not translate well into movable type.<p>What I see in these is (1) shortening of things to make them easier to type on phones, and (2) the use of a lot of whimsical spellings to convey emotion. People are communicating so much right now via just text that they&#x27;re going to strain to emote through the medium.