Language Work 1. Explain the underlined part(s) in each sentence in your own words. 1) Which makes what’s happening on the computer networks all the more startling . 2). Just when the media of McLuhan were supposed to render obsolete the medium of Shakespeare, the online world is experiencing the greatest boom in letter writing since the 18th century. 3). David Sewell, an associate editor at the University of Arizona, likens netwriting to the literary scene Mark Twain discovered in San Francisco in the 1860s. 4). For it can be very bad indeed: sloppy , meandering , puerile , ungrammatical, poorly spelled, badly structured and at times virtually content free. 5). Gerard Van der Leun ... has emerged as one of the preeminent stylists on the Net. 6). That is not to say that with more time every writer on the Internet would produce sparkling copy 7). Green’s Well Met in Minnesota ... is now revered on the Internet as a classic. 8). It’s so competitive that you have to work on your style if you want to make any impact . 9). Not only has it enfranchised thousands of would-be writers who otherwise might never have taken up the craft, but it has also thrown together classes of people who hadn’t had much direct contact before. 10).But it would be a mistake to dismiss the computer-message boards or to underestimate the effect a lifetime of dashing off E-mail will have on a generation of young writers.