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The first kind of strength is the sense of paying homage to Latin existing for a long time, the second kind of strength is that of a strong class force. ”2 The respect to Latin is a tradition since middle ages, because Latin was a church language at that time, and since Renaissance period, it has been the European scholars’ common language all the time. Latin is considered extensively to be the most perfect language — Queen of tongues — And emphasized that people should know how to write Latin correctly , that’s to say , people should follow the way famous writers used the language at that time . ( Ben Jonson, 1726 : 41 ). The correct usage of Latin was taught in school. Latin was assumed to be the model of all the other languages. No matter what difference existed between other languages and Latin, and no matter whether Latin was the mother tongue or not. This kind of views has direct influence in three respects on attitudes toward language of people. First, assuming that the best writer used Latin, people concluded feel that there should be regular “ exactness ” in any language and the same is true of English. Second, because Latin is essentially a kind of written language, people believe that the written language is more advanced than the spoken language from a certain perspective, Third, even if the language we use today is a entirely lineal descendant of Latin, a lot of people think that the English language was derived from the pure classical Latin, only lost the suffix of Latin. Even in the 20th century, we find that some linguists still think that English comes from Latin. 2. The new words of English We are living in the 21st century, now we are going through the rapid development and change in social life and politics, and economy, our knowledge of Latin are little. We know more about English than Latin. We have study English for about ten years. Now we have learn much about English, we can pay our attention on English, and do some research on English. We know many English words, and are especially the English new words. 2 . 1 Examples of English new words We can often come across the following English words and phrases from newspapers and magazines : OICQ , lay off , AD . OICQ is a word produced on the basis of the network, first invented by the Israelis. OICQ is short for “ oh, I seek you. ” and nowadays, almost all young people know OICQ, and they are glad to connect with each other in this way on line. Lay off is a phrase appearing in recent years, because the competition between enterprises is fierce now. If your enterprises wants survive the fierce competition, cutting down the number of workers can be regarded as a kind of effective means. And the staff cut down the are the unemployed, but in the mainland of China, we call them the laid off, which can be regarded as a kind of euphemism. AD is short for advertisment. Nowadays people do all kinds of things more effectively than ever. Living in the modern society, we need the English words spelt more easily for convenient. So, the word “advertisment”, made up of twelve letters has been changed into AD. 2.2 Examples of internet English words We can often come across a lot of internet English everyday. Nowadays we are living in a world full of internet English. Because today the computer has play an important role in our life .It has made our life more convenient and easier. The internet English was created with the popularity of computer. We can usually see