Brainstorming for Trailer

9/8 I've been interested in how language, especially the English language, has been changing at increasing rate in the last few decades or so. In the last two decades, part of that increasing rate of change has been accelerated by the internet and how we communicate with each other through the internet or some multimedia device. Part of the debate going on at the moment, is whether the internet, texting, chat rooms, and such have damaged people's, especially young people's, writing ability and grammar. The other side is that they have opened up a new avenue for expressing ourselves and communicate in new creative ways.

9/13 For my trailer I want to show the story of how the English language has come from its origins to where it was in 2000. Then discuss how the internet, cellphones, and other media devices have been changing and shaping the English Language in a new way that was 20 or 30 years nonexistent. Leet speak, word thieves, and acronyms have become popular in the last decade. I'm going to have pictures, text, and music, as I show and discuss where the English Language has come from to where it has been to where it is going. In all of this, I hope to indicate that the English Language is about to or has already begun a transition phrase directly due to the Internet and the ways we use it to communicate and connect.