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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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    My wife could agree with you at some length on those points! Her particular battle has been to try to persuade her clients that website designers need professional writers / proofreaders as much as any publishing activity does - she very, very rarely succeeds in this. It's an odd thing that printed language is seen as needing checking, while web published language doesn't - it's seen as "IT".

    She used to correct the grammar of letters home from our childrens' teachers and return them to them. It's probably just as well that I was a Governor at my childrens' primary school otherwise I hate to think what hideous revenge the teachers would have taken on them for that!


    Re "arsenic", when I was working in music technology design we had a very serious memo circulated to say that we were absolutely forbidden from using the abbreviation "anal" for "analogue". I think it's fair to say that the only effect was to encourage those that hadn't already thought of using that abbreviation to start doing so!


    Cheers,


    Andy

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    My wife could agree with you at some length on those points! Her particular battle has been to try to persuade her clients that website designers need professional writers / proofreaders as much as any publishing activity does - she very, very rarely succeeds in this. It's an odd thing that printed language is seen as needing checking, while web published language doesn't - it's seen as "IT".

    She used to correct the grammar of letters home from our childrens' teachers and return them to them. It's probably just as well that I was a Governor at my childrens' primary school otherwise I hate to think what hideous revenge the teachers would have taken on them for that!


    Re "arsenic", when I was working in music technology design we had a very serious memo circulated to say that we were absolutely forbidden from using the abbreviation "anal" for "analogue". I think it's fair to say that the only effect was to encourage those that hadn't already thought of using that abbreviation to start doing so!


    Cheers,


    Andy

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