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Brits place blame on emojis for ruining English language

Lisa Miles
An article on the E&T Magazine website states that a study has found that most British adults believe the English language is in decline, with many believing that emojis should take some of the blame.


Personally, I think the English language constantly 'evolves' over time....


I remember the furore when texting became the norm and many people started using 'text speak' in their everyday communitication. However, over the past few years, with autocorrect and predictive text becoming much more sophisticated, it's actually much harder and more time consuming to type 'text speak' into your phone nowadays.


There will always be those that aren't able to spell as well as others, and emojis will always have an appropriate place in communication, but I don't think we need to worry too much about the decline of the English language...


Or do we? wink
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    P.S. Just because I like recommending it - for anyone who does need to know the rules of English I can heartily recommend Bill Bryson's wonderful "Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words". We have loads of books on grammar and style in our house but this is by a long way my favourite - it's the only one that actually makes me laugh -  written some years before he became famous. I particularly like his explanation of why sometimes it does just make sense to determinedly split an infinitive. I'm pretty sure it's updated and back in print.
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    P.S. Just because I like recommending it - for anyone who does need to know the rules of English I can heartily recommend Bill Bryson's wonderful "Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words". We have loads of books on grammar and style in our house but this is by a long way my favourite - it's the only one that actually makes me laugh -  written some years before he became famous. I particularly like his explanation of why sometimes it does just make sense to determinedly split an infinitive. I'm pretty sure it's updated and back in print.
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