It is quite crazy to think about how much language has changed in our new generation for the youth of our nation. So many people converting to the slang of technology or to the lower intellect of our society. We used to live in a society where we were expected to be proper and pure in our language. Now we accept our society and youth with the way that they speak.
Its always interesting to think about how much we have changed as a nation and how language has changed for us as individuals. We live in the time where texting is probably the most common form of communication and to think of how we communicate with one another is quite crazy. To understand the acronyms for example that have been created. I would say that a good percent of people know exactly what your saying if you say lol, rotfl, smh, or hmu mean.
The fact that people do understand what we are saying in these situations just shows that society has completely accepted the change and downgrade in language that we have gone through. I really do not have a personal preference on how we talk to one another through language. I just find it interesting that our common language has shifted in such a dramatic way.
I, for one, have absolutely no idea what smh or hmu mean. Should I?
ReplyDeleteThat you see this all as a downward spiral is interesting, since people in older generations have (almost) always said the same thing about the younger generation. Some would argue that we're just becoming more economical with our speech because we have so much information flying at us. That said, you might be interested in reading Nicholas Carr's The Shallows, about how the internet is changing our brains. The book changed the way I see the world we live in.