English today has been produced by the possessions of the industrial revolution. As English became the world’s language of discovery and invention and as rapid advances were made in materials science, engineering, manufacturing and communication-information technology, computer technology and mobile communication- new communicative functions were required of the language. Industrial and communication revolution created legal, management structures, each with different forms of information given. Thus, the ‘information age’ began in the 19th century, establishing many of the styles and conventions we take for granted today.
An editorial column in The Times, October 1903, predicated that the heavier-than-air flying machines were theoretically impossible – two months before the Wright brothers launched their first plane ‘Flyer 1.’ It is unlikely that world will be transformed by some extraordinary inventions in the next few decades as being transforming now a days. New technology takes time to develop, be implemented and then to have important transformative effects. The building of the first computers and development of high-level computer languages around 1950s only now have a significant impact on people’s work and spare time.
English and computers have seemed to go together. Computers and the programmes, which make them useful, were largely the invention of English-speaking countries. The hardware and software wants the needs of the English language. The computer operators interacted with the programmes using instructions in English. The Internet illustrates the way technologies have been converging – television, telephone, music and new consumer technologies, such as multimedia computers and ‘Net TV’ bring the English language in homes, schools and workshops.
An editorial column in The Times, October 1903, predicated that the heavier-than-air flying machines were theoretically impossible – two months before the Wright brothers launched their first plane ‘Flyer 1.’ It is unlikely that world will be transformed by some extraordinary inventions in the next few decades as being transforming now a days. New technology takes time to develop, be implemented and then to have important transformative effects. The building of the first computers and development of high-level computer languages around 1950s only now have a significant impact on people’s work and spare time.
English and computers have seemed to go together. Computers and the programmes, which make them useful, were largely the invention of English-speaking countries. The hardware and software wants the needs of the English language. The computer operators interacted with the programmes using instructions in English. The Internet illustrates the way technologies have been converging – television, telephone, music and new consumer technologies, such as multimedia computers and ‘Net TV’ bring the English language in homes, schools and workshops.
(Figur-2) Language – engineering products available for major languages in the 2000.
The majority of the research and development in technology is carried out in the US, Europe and Japan. At present, the most advanced tools are based in English.
Many global engineering companies e.g. Boeing have constructed new, simplified forms of English, which are claimed to make maintenance manuals more comprehensible to overseas intended to engineers. But the use of ‘controlled English’ is also intended to make automatic translation easier - opening up the possibility of human writing in restricted forms of English so that machines can translate documents into restricted forms of target languages. The growing use of English as a ‘relay language’, to permit translation from any language to any other language via English, will produce new forms of language contact with may encourage the union of other languages, at least in their controlled forms, with the semantic and syntactic structures of English.
The Internet, from its beginning as a tool for international communication between a global academic privileged, will increasingly serve local, cultural and commercial purposes. Technological developments, changing the way the world’s citizens communicate and the way organisations operate. The Internet is regarded by many as the flagship of universal English. English is the medium for 80% of the information stored in the world’s computers. It is certainly true that growth of computer use – and of the Internet in particular- has been impressive in the last few years. A major improvement of intellectual property rights in connection with electronic texts has been provoked in part because of the way information and ideas now surround the world. Using the same infrastructures as the telephone, the Internet carries English language services into nearly every country and English id deeply established among users of Internet user- scientist as the international lingua franca and from this beginning, English appears to have extended its domain of use to become the preferred lingua franca for the many new kinds of users. Now the English language is operating standard for global communication.
Many global engineering companies e.g. Boeing have constructed new, simplified forms of English, which are claimed to make maintenance manuals more comprehensible to overseas intended to engineers. But the use of ‘controlled English’ is also intended to make automatic translation easier - opening up the possibility of human writing in restricted forms of English so that machines can translate documents into restricted forms of target languages. The growing use of English as a ‘relay language’, to permit translation from any language to any other language via English, will produce new forms of language contact with may encourage the union of other languages, at least in their controlled forms, with the semantic and syntactic structures of English.
The Internet, from its beginning as a tool for international communication between a global academic privileged, will increasingly serve local, cultural and commercial purposes. Technological developments, changing the way the world’s citizens communicate and the way organisations operate. The Internet is regarded by many as the flagship of universal English. English is the medium for 80% of the information stored in the world’s computers. It is certainly true that growth of computer use – and of the Internet in particular- has been impressive in the last few years. A major improvement of intellectual property rights in connection with electronic texts has been provoked in part because of the way information and ideas now surround the world. Using the same infrastructures as the telephone, the Internet carries English language services into nearly every country and English id deeply established among users of Internet user- scientist as the international lingua franca and from this beginning, English appears to have extended its domain of use to become the preferred lingua franca for the many new kinds of users. Now the English language is operating standard for global communication.
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