Language - Finding the Middle Ground - Comments

The literature of the future will be written by the teenagers of the now.

And their children.

And their children.

Thing will change, time has a habit of doing that.

I think that Twitter/Facebook do affect the way high school students talk, I'm not denying that, I just don't think that literature is made by teenagers. Language doesn't survive solely through texts and blogs, but through books. Again I'm not saying that in some groups spoken language hasn't become more simplistic, just that I don't think it'll permanently damage literary language a great deal.

I agree with just_call_me_dookie.
In a sense our language abilities are devoloving. Now it all about convieniance. It has become too easy to just say 'lol' or 'brb'. It takes the shortest amount of time, but few people seem to realise the lack of emotional connection we can make with these letters. We have the capability for much better communication. We need to use it.

Nice article.

Thanks for the replies!

I wanted to see if this sort of thing would take off on Mibba, and evidently it did. As you say, it's nice to see people interested in affairs other than Twilight!

I like this. I share your language ability. However, there is a cause for many people to have problems with languages. There's a certain part of the brain that either develops well or it doesn't. These same people that can't learn languages most likely have problems with written english as well.

Haha! The Romeo thing cracked me up! That was great. And sadly, probably pretty true.

Today Romeo would be like hey baby, wanna ..pluck?

Nice article :]

Its refreshing to read something thats not about homophobes, Twilight, or religion.

I agree.

Beautiful Article, truly. I agree with you. We need to hold on to our language and people need to start using it correctly. Most of my friends don't even say good-bye when hanging up the phone. I have a theory it's because of texting and myspace. You rarely say "Good-bye" in those situations so it damages your communication skills. Evolvement of something is crucial. But the way it seems to have come with language is we're devolving not evolving and I think that that is utterly disgusting.