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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've worked with company style guides, but they only provide advice on what font, colour, etc. to use, with occasionally reference to spelling (ise/ize) but never the use of apostrophes.

    I thought your second link was interesting (https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55970/plurals-of-acronyms-letters-numbers-use-an-apostrophe-or-not) as shows an example of the saying 'the exception proves the rule' which has been completely misunderstood. That is to say, the extract from Webster's provides examples of where it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to indicate a plural, and these exceptions show that the general rule (not stated) is that you don't use an apostrophe to indicate a plural (i.e. these are the exceptions to the general rule), but the correspondent has read this and not appreciated that point.

    I would therefore agree with your pragmatic approach of only using an apostrophe where there is a risk of a misunderstanding and no chance of my wife seeing it.

    Alasdair

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    Andy,

    I've worked with company style guides, but they only provide advice on what font, colour, etc. to use, with occasionally reference to spelling (ise/ize) but never the use of apostrophes.

    I thought your second link was interesting (https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55970/plurals-of-acronyms-letters-numbers-use-an-apostrophe-or-not) as shows an example of the saying 'the exception proves the rule' which has been completely misunderstood. That is to say, the extract from Webster's provides examples of where it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to indicate a plural, and these exceptions show that the general rule (not stated) is that you don't use an apostrophe to indicate a plural (i.e. these are the exceptions to the general rule), but the correspondent has read this and not appreciated that point.

    I would therefore agree with your pragmatic approach of only using an apostrophe where there is a risk of a misunderstanding and no chance of my wife seeing it.

    Alasdair

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