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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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    Emojis are fine - at least the obvious ones are, like the smileys and the laughing faces - even the amusing poo has its uses - they add an extra dimension to a message that can't be conveyed by word alone. Would you rather get a reply saying "That's funny" or the crying-with-laughter emoji?


    As it happens, by a strange coincidence I was discussing emojis with my cousin this very morning (ironically, by text, with lots of emojis) and there are loads of them now that neither of us have a Scooby about (I know...)


    We couldn't decide what one of them was. Suggestions ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous before we finally gave in and googled it.


    A rice cracker. Seriously? Who could possibly need an emoji of a rice cracker? Yes, use them by all means, but there has to come a point where emojis alone aren't sufficient and we need to resort to words



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    Emojis are fine - at least the obvious ones are, like the smileys and the laughing faces - even the amusing poo has its uses - they add an extra dimension to a message that can't be conveyed by word alone. Would you rather get a reply saying "That's funny" or the crying-with-laughter emoji?


    As it happens, by a strange coincidence I was discussing emojis with my cousin this very morning (ironically, by text, with lots of emojis) and there are loads of them now that neither of us have a Scooby about (I know...)


    We couldn't decide what one of them was. Suggestions ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous before we finally gave in and googled it.


    A rice cracker. Seriously? Who could possibly need an emoji of a rice cracker? Yes, use them by all means, but there has to come a point where emojis alone aren't sufficient and we need to resort to words



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