How Has The Emergence Of Technology In The Last Two Decades Affected Our Use Of The English Language?
Does anyone think language in general has worsened or improved as time has gone by? Are standards of written and spoken language in decline and is the purity of the English language getting more distorted through the impact of technology?
Perhaps technology has aided the development of English or there may not be any relationship between the growth of technology and language at all!
Open floor, I’m in search of all sorts of opinions!
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It’s worse, some people cannot even spell “the” online without screwing up.
Thanks to my trusty companion, Hot Rod (an MX-400 Logitech mouse)
I never misspell when I post because of the auto-spellcheck and correction click and I am wise enough to know what word to use.
Poor education and texting is in my mind, the evil source of all this illiteracy. The phone companies should boost the memory capacity of their phones for typing in coherent english or parents should lecture their kids that this is not how you should write a book report and take their phones off them for a month or two.
On the other hand,
New words like “smart phone” “quantum computing” and “fanboy” are entering our language (I do not consider internet gibberish to even qualify for a dictionary EVER)
Communication is faster than ever, you can make friends who live in another country and tell them what hobbies you are into and they send a response in seconds.
I’m holding out hope for voice recognition software to replace the keyboard so that the computer types what you dictate in correct punctuation and spelling with a touch screen manual override in case you are sick with laryngitis or just don’t feel like talking to a machine.
The english language is at a crossroads and it is up to us to decide if keeping it “pure” or letting slang and pop culture interact with it is for the best.
I see the impact of technology on the English language and all languages for that matter in a couple of ways. First with the text messaging many now use the contractions and spelling short-cuts used in text messaging are getting onto both the written and spoken language. Second with emerging technologies you are seeing new words appearing to Reference the technologies and their uses. With some languages, such as Spanish, because they do not seem to lend themselves to these changes you see many English words being introduced or in some cases very long cumbersome uses of Traditional terms to try to describe a technology or process. Also we are seeing many “words of art” terms that in normal usage mean something quite different to their use in a specific profession or technology.
Lmao!! WTF? IDK? I could actually, probably find a way to tech talk this whole subject.Or use txt shorts or …..I cant say its gotten worse. Just shorter. Language has streamlined as has technology. I think as things just go faster and faster so will our language.
There will always be english courses taught in school. They may end up converting also, But for the most part, it wont die. Itll evolve, just like ebonics
Ok. GG ttyl.BB