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Technology vs. English Is the Corruption Finally Here?

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Page 1: Technology vs english

Technology vs. EnglishIs the Corruption Finally Here?

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Table of Contents

I. What is Happening?II. What are These Newfangled Tech

III. Is Texting and Social Networking a Form of Writing or Speech?

IV. Positive: Encouragement

V. Positive: Speed

VI. Positive: Reading

VII. Positive: Thought

VIII. Negative: Formality

IX. Negative: Youth

X. Negative: Constant Changes

XI. Negative: Negligence of Grammar

XII. Negative: Education

XIII. Negative: Interpersonal Relationships

XIV. Is it Destroying the Language?

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What is Happening?

• English on the Internet

and in the mobile

world has changed.

• Text lingo and net

lingo have been

flourishing.

• People fear that text

and net lingo has

been interfering with

modern English.

With the lives of Americans

having sped up, language

has been shortened to

follow the fast-pacing.

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What are These Newfangled

Tech?

• Social Networking: an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.

Examples:

Facebook

Google+

Twitter

Orkut

MyYearBook

LinkedIn

Tagged

MySpace

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• Text Messaging: Text

messaging, or texting,

refers to the

exchange of brief

written text messages

between two or more

mobile phones or

fixed or portable

devices over a phone

network.

Features:

160 Character Limit

Speedy Receive and Send

Cheap

QWERTY Keyboard

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• Instant Messaging

(IM): a form of

communication over

the Internet, that

offers an

instantaneous

transmission of text-

based messages from

sender to receiver.

Examples:

AIM

Yahoo IM

MSN Live Messenger

Meebo

Trillian

Pidgin

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Is Texting and Social-

Networking a Form of Writing

or Speech?

• Characteristics of

texting and social

networking:

• Sentences are well-

thought before sent.

• Contains some

manner of speech

characteristics.

• Requires formulating

words using a

medium, i.e. tech.

These forms of

communication are closer

to writing than to speech. It

can borderline with creative

writing, where an obvious

tone is set and is less formal

than academic writing.

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Positive: Encouragement

• More students are

encouraged

everyday to write

• Most school-aged

children wrote more

than their parents.

• Many children can

separate formal

writing from informal

writing.

Positive impacts mostly

occur when a student

writes. They are capable of

improving their own quality

of writing as they write down

their own thoughts and

feelings in order to publicize

them.

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Positive: Speed• Accomplish More

• Suits Busy Lives

Speed is important in the

average American’s life.

Without speed, not much

can be accomplished. With

technology, people can

send quick messages and

type faster, saving time for

them.

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Positive: Reading

• Several sites offer visual and sound accompaniments, enabling children to maintain interest and learn more.

• Important literacy skills like critical thinking and reading comprehension are gained through surfing the web.

Plenty of well-written works

lie on the internet. They can

influence readers, especially

children, and teach them

skills that are needed for

decent literacy.

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Positive: Thought

• Word Processors are

faster.

• People can let the

words flow easily onto

a monitor before

going back to edit.

With programs such as

Microsoft Word, people can

write a train of thought,

having less disruptions than

when writing on paper.

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Negative: Formality

• Language has grown

less formal in terms of

both content and

syntax.

• Text speak and

Netspeak has

downgraded the

English language into

acronyms and broken

sentences.

There has been a decline in

formality in the past 50

years. Casual wear exists

often in the workplace, and

greetings are simply by first

name, no matter by whom.

This also applies to

language.

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Negative: Youth

• Businesses are attempting to appeal to youth with slang, Netspeak, and texting lingo.

• Role-models are diminishing, as middle-aged adults are growing obsessed with youth, and thus follow the language culture involved with younger generations.

Youth are important for any

country, as they lead the

country’s future. They are

also highly influenced. With

America obsessed with

youth, language has taken

a spin away from

sophistication.

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Negative: Constant Changes

• Changes sometimes

happen faster than

people can

comprehend.

• People have

misinterpreted

meanings due to this.

Connotations in words are

changed in the cybernetic

and mobile phone worlds

everyday. This also applies

to acronyms.

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Negative: Negligence of

Grammar

• Some word classes

have been eliminated

in chats in the

technological world.

• As long as the point is

across, not many

people care to use

grammar.

Grammar has been

neglected, and it has been

showing up onto papers.

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Negative: Education

• More and more people believe that education does not necessarily lead to financial success. This leads to laziness.

• FCATs have shown a shocking decrease in writing scores, even with the changes in the scoring and difficulty.

Writing scores have been

impacted. Teachers have

found errors related to

Netspeak in essays and

reports.

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Negative: Weaker Interpersonal Relationships

• People multitasking is highly common.

• Focus is split when people are doing more things at once.

• With communication, if people converse with more than one person through different mediums, sentences and thought degrades.

People are less connected

with each other more than

ever today, despite all of

the connectivity provided

by tech. This does influence

language.

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So is it Destroying the

Language?

• People are abusing texting and other communication tools.

• People are growing lethargic with the language.

• It is certainly degrading diverse and aesthetic properties of English.

• As long as some people cling to “proper” English, corruption will not happen anytime soon.

It is not destroying the

language, but it is

degrading it. Context is

shallow and simple, and it is

appearing in more places.

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