Ah, the relationship between technology and language. Language basically created technology while tech continues to change the language. I mean that we humans wrote the code for all the tech – which to my understanding is a language in itself.
The technology, in turn, is influencing how we communicate with each other. From watching our diction (word choice) to shortening certain phrases (lol, tbh, thot, jk, brb, ttyl).
We’ve had to start watching our words because of the non-verbal communications that can be, and often are, misinterpreted. Take emails and texting for examples. We have to be extra cautious as to the words we choose so that our message comes across how we intend it to. On a personal note – I know my mom struggles with this, and I am sure many others do. Moving further into our communication habits, we as a race somehow determined certain phrases to be too long to type out and subsequently shortened them. Phrases like, ‘laugh out loud’ (not ‘lots of love’ to all the confused mothers out there), ‘to be honest’, ‘that hoe over there’, ‘just kidding’, ‘be right back’, and ‘talk to you later’. Our language via technology became shorter and more to the point. No longer did the majority of people take time to formulate a longer answer, no instead, they fired back short messages. Our language was shortened to communicate faster, normally using the technology we had developed.
Now I will be completely honest right here. Okay? I have no idea where I was going with this post. I just get aggravated by how people now use poor grammar while I am talking to them and I hate that the useful and progressive technology is to a point responsible for the crumbling language. That’s all. Let me know what you think. ~V
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