for all of these reasons, online communication is engendering its own styles, genres and forms of English. Some people contend that it is resulting in the bastardization of English, the ruining of standards, and the misinformation of the public ,while others contend that it is democratizing English by extending new forms of low-cost interaction, collaboration, and publishing to native and non-native English speakers around the world .while there are certainly elements of truth arguments, there is no doubt 490 that online English are challenging prior notions of who the languages to, whose voices are heard and who contributes to knowledge formation and dissemination