AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Most hopefully meaning11/19/2023 So, you could view our current situation as language evolution in fast-forward, and now it seems that we have some proof. Groups of Twitter users based on language, from Bryden et al. So, rather than the many hundreds of years it took for all of the different languages of the Germanic people settling Great Britain to melt together into English, we have very fine-tuned communities coming together in zero time, relatively speaking, and spending tons of time communicating with each other online. One of those is the possibility of rapid language fragmentation, or new online subgroups generating new languages or language variants. There are other, more interesting possibilities for language in the new world. I don't really believe that answer, understanding well enough why rules of language exist, but that worry dominates most of the conversation about language and social media, and even digital communication in general. If meaning is sustained, what difference do the materials make? Just the other day my dad was ripping on me for using bad grammar in a text message (note: it wasn't that bad), with my reply being something along the lines of, it's just a text message. The default answer to the above is surely " making it worse." When it comes to social networks, grammar, syntax, spelling, and all the rest of it give way to decomposed bites of, hopefully, meaning.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |