Technology is not destroying the English language, this is an extreme view. People are are the problem. Elder people believe technology is a problem because they see how Teenagers use their phones and can’t stay away from them, but it’s because smartphones weren’t around in their days so they wouldn’t understand.
Many elder people don’t like to use smartphones and certain apps such as snapchat because some young people ‘SEXT’ each other. I don’t think technology is destroying the English language for example I use technology but I also go to school but I wouldn’t use slang or abbreviations because there’s a good balance between technology and school work. The Person who is claiming that technology is a problem is just easily offended because it’s not affecting them, it’s not stopping them from sleeping at night so they should just leave people who use slang alone and stop blaming technology.
Idiolect is used a lot in slang for example people use words in different situations for example someone might say ‘FAM’ when they’re talking about their family or someone might say it if they’re talking about their friend.
Emojis are used quite frequently when they’re texting each other for example not many people say the word ‘lol’ anymore they’ll just use ‘?’ my most frequently used emoji is ? I use it when someone asks me a question and I don’t want to answer it.
Here we have a text between two friends there’s not much slang in this text this might be because they think slang is immature or they just don’t feel comfortable using slang.For example they use quiet a lot of punctuation.
People say technology is destroying the English language but without technology life would be quiet hard. people wouldn’t be able to communicate with family in different countries and they cant contact with friends.
March 1, 2016 at 4:35 pm
Jayden,
1) Have a look at your first paragraph – re-read and edit your sentence structure – how can your meaning be made clearer? Where does your spelling and punctuation need to be corrected? BE sure to do this throughout.
2) When you say ‘elder people’ what do you mean? Could you vary your vocabulary here? Are you stereotyping?
3) Look at your second paragraph – it seems as though it contain at least three different ideas that could all do with a paragraph of their own. Please develop your work here.
4) BEgin to explore your own slang, idiolect and use of emojis across texts/social media