While I see our language changing everyday and see that our conversational
style is becoming much less formal, I had never really thought about the idea of
it. We are adopting less and more simple
words. Our new media of Facebook and online chat and even texting has us using
shortened words instead of full ideas. Multiple people may use the word “lol”
in a conversation but before this shortened word, those multiple people could
have all expressed the same comment in different unique ways. This shortened
language takes away our individuality, slowly at first while we aren’t
realizing it.
It’s important to realize the importance of expressing our
thoughts in unique ways. By using generic shortened phrases we are cheating
ourselves of original ideas.
There is more on this at http://brittanyneisenmann.blogspot.com/2012/05/destruction-of-words.html
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