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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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    I have been having a think about this.


    The older generation communicated using letters and obtained information from books and newspapers, which required the skills and ability to read and write. A now middle aged generation grew up in a world where telephones and televisions were commonplace which reduced the necessity to be able to read and write, so consequently, standards of literacy fell. The younger generation have grown up in the social media era which has acted as a driving force to revive the skills and ability to read and write, often with unpredictable and questionable consequences like text speak. Teachers have not always been able to effectively keep up with the social media era and its impact on reading and writing as their mindset is often stuck in the television / telephone or pen and ink eras. Kids nowadays would rather communicate with each other by sending messages on WhatsApp or posting comments on Facebook rather than by talking. Should schools now start teaching kids the art of conversation and telephone calls because they are dying skills like personal letter writing in the 1970s and 80s?
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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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    In response to the earlier post, please don't get me started on apostrophes! I'm a really pedantic old git when it comes to the unnecessary apostrophe, they're one of my pet hate's...


    And it really gets on my nerves when there should be an apostrophe and its missing...


    I need a coffee!

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