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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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    Andrew F Wilson:



    ...but more often there will be a style-guide to over-rule a writer's preference


    Another point you don't want to get my wife started on - the amount of times recently she's been saying to clients "where's your style guide???" Or, even worse, finds a style guide written by someone who is keen on formats for web marketing, but doesn't understand grammar. As you can imagine she often ends up offering to write one for them!


    It seems like the days of style guides - even for publishers - are going. Not too bad when she's working on a single author book, as she ends up deciding her own rules if no-one else will, but a pain for journals, magazines and for those marketing materials that need consitency.


    Must admit I mised the MP / minister point, (I'm supposed to be doing other things than posting on forums smiley ) but I still liked that example.


    Cheers,


    Andy
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    Andrew F Wilson:



    ...but more often there will be a style-guide to over-rule a writer's preference


    Another point you don't want to get my wife started on - the amount of times recently she's been saying to clients "where's your style guide???" Or, even worse, finds a style guide written by someone who is keen on formats for web marketing, but doesn't understand grammar. As you can imagine she often ends up offering to write one for them!


    It seems like the days of style guides - even for publishers - are going. Not too bad when she's working on a single author book, as she ends up deciding her own rules if no-one else will, but a pain for journals, magazines and for those marketing materials that need consitency.


    Must admit I mised the MP / minister point, (I'm supposed to be doing other things than posting on forums smiley ) but I still liked that example.


    Cheers,


    Andy
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