Are instant messaging and text messaging killing language? To hear what the popular media say, a handful of OMGs (oh my god) and smiley faces, along with a paucity of capital letters and punctuation marks, might be bringing English to its knees.
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Things Change with time, and most will agree that language is one of the things that change. From the time of Shakespeare till now, look at how much the english language has changed. we dont use thy, thee, and words like that anymore. does that mean that since that time till now the english language has been brought to its knees? No as said before things change with time. Iv also heard of history repeating itself, mostly commonly with war and disease, but what if it also meant with language? you look at greek symbols and old sanskrit it all looks like a bunch of scratches and shapes, but it was still a official written language and was read and written by people daily. Its 2011 and are language is changing. and time is money. so if it takes less time to type brb than it does be right back, that alone could save somebody a couple grand or so.....maybe.
I completely agree our language is constantly changing, and I like how you mentioned Shakespeare because that's most certainly true! I feel that it's not necessarily a bad thing either, its the 21st century so we need to embrace the change!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that language is changing, but the sad thing is that the older generation s is set on their ways. They believe that the world should stay where it is and not change in any way shape or form. I have met a few of these people and they are hard headed as they come. It is sad that they don’t want our younger generations staying up with the technology. Technology is a rapid growing thing that is going to grow even tremendously large, and we need everyone support so that our youth do not fall behind. They are going to be our future whether we want to believe that or not.
ReplyDeleteI agree that language is changing and things change with time. I'm with you, i donn't think the English language has been brought to it's knees either just because most of us use shorter forms of words or phrases.
ReplyDeleteI read this and it makes so much sense! Language has changed drastically since back then and it is so true that a new age comes with new language.
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