David Crystal, one of the leading authorities on language, argues otherwise in his new book: that the Internet is enabling a dramatic expansion of the range and variety of language and provide unprecedented opportunities for personal creativity. As the Internet has become incorporated into our lives, it becomes clear how being formed by and is adapting language and languages. Language and the Internet is the first book by a linguist on the linguistic aspects of the Internet. David Crystal is one of the leading authorities on language, and as editor of the Encyclopedia of Cambridge he had used the Internet for research purposes of the initial manifestations. Crystal is the author of several books with Cambridge, including Cambridge Encyclopedia Language (1997), Cambridge Encyclopedia of English Language (1995), English as a Global Language (1997), and Langugage Death (2000) and Words on Words (University of Chicago, 2000). His edited books including The Cambridge Encyclopedia (Fourth Edition, 2000) The Cambridge Encyclopedia Hardcover (Third Edition, 1999), The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia (Second Edition, 1997) and The Cambridge Factfinder (Fourth Edition, 2000).