A study from a few years ago has discovered that people do not need to know the whole word to know what it says, they simply need the first and last letter in the correct place in order to understand it. Another study found that lowercase letters are easier to read then CAPITAL LETTERS. The mind is a very challenging thing to figure out, but wether you speak "old-speak, new-speak, or teen-speak" the mind is capable of figuring out out.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
loss of language?
Is the English language really being lost? I highly doubt it. The world as we know it, is changing every day. Evolution is happening every day. At one time people would phrase a question to be "art thou shall not" when really all that could be said was "I should not," or even "I shouldn't" The english language isn't being lost. Its being simplified, making our world a little easier. The only reason that I would ever use "short-speak" or "teen speak" was because my phone only allowed 200 characters in a text message, so I simply make a few words shorter to make everything fit instead of sending more then one message. Otherwise if I'm on MSN or Facebook or Twitter I hardly ever use "teen-speak" because there really is no point in doing so. As for the people who use "teen-speak" all the time, its mostly talking to their friends, there not writing a University level essay. If you have the chance to do something simpler, than take it! There is no reason to make things more difficult then it really need to be. Even if people talk in "teen-speak" its not like there going to start pronouncing those words. ex. BRB, people are not going to walk around says "burb" or ROFL "roffel" people use simplified words only when they are on a social network.
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