They seem to think its ok to abbrieviate and mis-spell, as long as it makes sense phoenetically. Do you think english as we now know it will cease to exist over the next century?
2007-04-15 18:36:00 · 3 answers · asked by shoppingfool 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Many people consider legal documents difficult to understand, but the language contained in them used to be proper english. A little over a hundred years ago, any person on the street would have had no problem comprehending "legalese" as we call it today--it was simply how they spoke.
Immigration changed all that, creating a mixed-up "dilluted" form of english that we use today. Computers are, for the most part, making people even lazier with their speech, and the vast number of people who use odd, internet-age abbreviations is increasing every day.
A few decades from now, I'm quite certain they won't be speaking as we do. I can only shudder at the thought of what that might sound like.
2007-04-15 18:48:20 · answer #1 · answered by Reverend Leigh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Because the "text" communication of today- is NOT real "communication". -It's social "noise". -Hardly much more than a series of "clicks, grunts, & gas exchanges" - that suggests there's "life" out there- but has NO idea what it means. The intellegent person- will tend to respond in complete sentences & tune the "static" out. The person who can't be "botherd" will get lost in the confusion of miscommunications that is the hallmark of textual babbling.
2007-04-15 18:59:26 · answer #2 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It think so yes. When you think about it, saying thee and thou and 'how doth?' used to be the norm, we wouldn't dream of speaking that way nowadays. I think in the future all these manners of speaking and writing that are considered 'ghetto' nowadays will be completely normal. Geddit??
2007-04-15 18:52:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋