Txting is killing language. JK!!!
- Speech is much looser, much more telegraphic and its much less reflective than writing
- Speech used to be much more formal (people spoke like they wrote)
- Texting is more like how we speak - it is very loose in its structure, no one thinks about
capital letters or punctuation (but we also don't when we speak)
- Texting allows us to write how we speak
- Texting is 'fingered speech' - decline in standard English (emergent complexity)
- 'LOL' is a marker of empathy
- 'Slash' is used to change the topic in texting (new information marker)
Go ahead, make up new words!
- Language is just a group of people who agree to understand each other
- Grammar is the unconscious rules that you follow (Jean Berko Gleason: Wug Test)
- Borrowing from other languages ('Caramel' from French, 'Ninja' from Japan)
- Compounding (putting two words together - e.g. bookworm, heartbroken)
- Blend (e.g. motel, brunch, electrocute)
- Back formation (e.g. we had the word editor before we had the word edit)
- Acronyms (e.g. NASA, OMG)
What makes a word "real"?
- 'Adorkable' 'Hangry'
- Less people refer to dictionaries now
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