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Brits place blame on emojis for ruining English language

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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  • Hi Alasdair, Lisa,


    Personally I totally agree with you - and I wish I could find now where I read the other view (that it is always ok to pluralise abbreviations with an apostrophe). It was probably 10 years ago that I looked this up, following a disagreement with my then manager over this point.


    If I happen to trip over the source I'll definitely post it here!


    Cheers,


    Andy
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  • Hi Alasdair, Lisa,


    Personally I totally agree with you - and I wish I could find now where I read the other view (that it is always ok to pluralise abbreviations with an apostrophe). It was probably 10 years ago that I looked this up, following a disagreement with my then manager over this point.


    If I happen to trip over the source I'll definitely post it here!


    Cheers,


    Andy
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