Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Question 9
Yes the new media is corrupting the language, but not the way we communicate. The new media is ruining the correct way to speak and write language. The new media has created short hands for words like lol, btw, and ttyl. Also it now has shorten words like u, y, and b4. These short hands show up in formal essay ruining the formal language. Some might argue that the world is evolving so the language has to evolve and that is what is happening. The new media has enhanced and evolved the way people communicate though. With social networks, internet and smart phones communication from around the world has become a lot easier. It saves times and money. Also the new ways to communicate have killed older ways of communication like, pay phones and mail to an extent thanks to mobile phones and email.
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I agree that new media is corrupting language in a way. There has been shortened words being used in essays, which can be traced back to social media. However, it is not bad if used in proper context. If the shortened words are used on social media websites, text messages, ect., there is no problem there. However, once they find a way into formal, academic writing, there is a problem.
ReplyDeletePrefer to see it as an evolution. Once we become the "older generation" this change in language will be much more exepted. It is the older generations in our time that see this as a form if corruption, and tell us it is a corruption. This change in language greatly improves communication speed, and just as in real language there is different preference in the usage, which is always interesting to examine.
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