Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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The fact that textism is having a greater influence on English language these days is not something to embrace, but not necessarily fear. It is fair to state that the English language is more than words in sentence structure, it represents human life, and therefore has taken a life on it's own, it has been this way for centuries. Textism is not something to consider as a degredation of our language, it's just different, but fails to hold the same meaning to us as the way we orginally learned to speak growing up, and the way we were taught until today. We are simply too established for this different version of language to permanently effect our language lifestyle, but it is a definite possiblilty that it could effect future generations. We are also in no position to refer to this change on language as 'degradation' because those before us could say the exact same thing about the way we speak and consider the 'right' way. All that can be derived from this information is that language is constantly changing, just like a person, it can have the same name it's whole life, but it won't always be the same person altogether.
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I don't really think these textisms can be considered as the evolution of the English language. Although it is true that English has, and probably will, continue to adapt and evolve, it has never undergone change as great as this. Never in history has our language gone from letters and words to numbers and random nonsense. Even those who lived before us could look at our language today and understand most, if not all, of what is said; that cannot be said of these textisms. I mean, a few days ago, my mom saw me on msn talking to some of my soccer buddies, and the only words she could understand were the select few that I typed out as they appear in dictionaries. At least I could still understand the noncolloquial words of the past few centuries; if i wasn't born so recently I would have no idea what these textisms mean either.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your idea that maybe, at this era, we probably haven't fully established or accepted the use of computer language into everyday English. Take me for example, I don't find it very appealing to hear colloquial Texism during formal situations, and also I find it embarrassing to be used in front of my superiors.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I still keep an open mind because as Texism is being highly used today, it will make a huge impact on the future. It's happened before and it will keep happening because the English language will change.
However when you said the "right way" I think I'm slightly confused to what you were referring to.
Despite this inevitable change, I find it a bit saddening because as words are being abbreviated, this just proves that we humans are just lazy.