I believe that different aspects of technology is destroying the English language, however other aspects show that in ways it improves the way we talk to each other using technology.
I agree that there are different parts of technology that destroy the English language in different way. One way is texting slang like u – you and hbu – how about you these can be quite confusing if you are receiving the text and you don’t understand what slang text is or what it mean. A lot of us use texting slang to shorten words and to speed up texting. This is destroying the English language gradually because people are using it to speak to each other face to face which is confusing people.
However some people shorten words like ppl – people although this speeds up texting it can be confusing for some people. But because this type of texting has been created by teenagers this type of texting is normally being sent between teenagers and they understand it plus it is also a fast way of talk to each other.
People also use emojis (emoticons) to show their feelings on text like ? Meaning that’s funny or, ? Meaning you are sad. This is ruining the English language because although emojis are easy to read it is removing words. However it is a lot easier to understand the mood of the text by using emojis, they ruin the language because people sometimes only text with enojes whuch is usless if only one person is asking about somthing like how was your day and they put a thumbs up; now that is easy to understand that he had a good day but doesnt tell you what as so good about it, or asking ho the other persons day was. I think this has ruined the way we speak to other people on social media and taking the details of things out of the language.
people are also using ideolects in texts now just to add in extra words so it looks like they actually made an effort when they are only wasting time, I think this is stupid. Why?, errrrm because it does not make sense when you are reading it. when you read it it is actually boring because people extend them too much like eeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmm and hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah which is quite frankly, silly.
March 2, 2016 at 8:24 am
Matthew,
You must now think carefully about how you punctuate your sentences and use auxiliary verbs. Look at your first sentence, how will you change is to make the tense more consistent? What tense are you writing in?
One you have done this, look at where you have put your commas and full stops – you should aim to use a piece of punctuation after each piece of information.