I remember reading Taming of the Shrew in grade school and thinking ‘this is English?’ Nope. I was wrong. It’s Elizabethan. It’s what our language has evolved from.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more have been playing active roles in the evolution of language. With the development of online tools, we’ve been able to enhance communications between countries, cultures and languages. While students may not have a grip on how we’ve talked and written in the past, they have developed their own language that fits with the tools that they are surrounded with. Isn’t that more resourcefulness than anything?

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