The net advances the global power of the language more ruthlessly than the British Empire ever cou1d. Every new net user will have to learn a version of English if he is not to find himself locked in a linguistic cyberghetto.

• 网络对英语普及的推动力超过了大英帝国的任何行动，每个新的上网者都必须学习某种版本的英语，如果他不想困在语言的“网络隔离区”内。