Because Internet

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This annotation offers a linguistically informed exploration of how the digital world is reshaping the English language. Language, as humanity's most remarkable open-source project, is evolving rapidly due to the internet. The developers of apps and platforms influence our conversational structures, from the grammar of status updates to comment protocols. Online communities disseminate new slang and jargon at an astonishing pace, while social media serves as a vast, unfiltered laboratory for observing language evolution in real time. Even seemingly absurd slang reveals underlying patterns. The author delves into the forces that shape human language and our communication methods, highlighting how the year one first accessed the internet affects online speech, the emergence of ~sparkly tildes~ as sarcasm indicators, the role of emojis, and the significance of internet dialects like doge and lolspeak. This work is essential for anyone curious about text message punctuation or the origins of memes. It provides valuable insights into how the internet transforms the English language, why these changes are beneficial, and what our online interactions reveal about our identities.