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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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    Andy,

    I have to disagree with 'some authorities' here. There is no problem with abbreviations that finish with an 's' when the abbreviation is in capitals and the 's' is lower case as it is obviously meant to be a plural. Also if the reader doesn't know if the abbreviation finishes with an 's' or not then it means they don't know the abbreviation and it should be written out in full to give proper understanding (going back to your earlier post about being unambiguous).

    I loved the news story a few months back about someone in Bristol who goes round at night deleting (or in a few cases, adding) apostrophes from shop signs to correct their grammar (known generally as the 'Greengrocer's apostrophe' due to the prevalence of greengrocers with signs saying "carrot's", "apple's", etc.

    I have the same reaction as you to the sign "Heavy Plant Crossing", but I also remember many years ago reading a book by Terry Pratchett where the heroes (non-human of course) had 'borrowed' a car and having passed a sign saying "Road Works" drove over the unmade section, then complained that the sign was wrong as the road certainly didn't work!

    Alasdair
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    Andy,

    I have to disagree with 'some authorities' here. There is no problem with abbreviations that finish with an 's' when the abbreviation is in capitals and the 's' is lower case as it is obviously meant to be a plural. Also if the reader doesn't know if the abbreviation finishes with an 's' or not then it means they don't know the abbreviation and it should be written out in full to give proper understanding (going back to your earlier post about being unambiguous).

    I loved the news story a few months back about someone in Bristol who goes round at night deleting (or in a few cases, adding) apostrophes from shop signs to correct their grammar (known generally as the 'Greengrocer's apostrophe' due to the prevalence of greengrocers with signs saying "carrot's", "apple's", etc.

    I have the same reaction as you to the sign "Heavy Plant Crossing", but I also remember many years ago reading a book by Terry Pratchett where the heroes (non-human of course) had 'borrowed' a car and having passed a sign saying "Road Works" drove over the unmade section, then complained that the sign was wrong as the road certainly didn't work!

    Alasdair
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