• Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for 'eroding' language
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It's like Newspeak is making itself.
[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;33021276]So what? Language has been changing even without twitter and it will keep changing as people change. I personally think Shakespeare wasn't even that good. His books were about boring love and predictable stories. Maybe it was the bomb back in his time, but now it's just eh.[/QUOTE] The stories are fantastic, the language just makes it really really hard to get into. Macbeth was the shit.
[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;33023942]The stories are fantastic, the language just makes it really really hard to get into. Macbeth was the shit.[/QUOTE]Alright, I accept your opinion
wel he iz a gay boi lol!!!! In all seriousness, I'd blame facebook, bebo etc. If it weren't for Facepunch, my grammar and vocabulary would be [i]atrocious[/i].
[QUOTE=Contag;33021375]English was to Latin and french what african american english/ebonics is to English today.[/QUOTE] I thought old english was a bastard form of german
For some reason I read Twitter as Twilight. Knowing Ralph Fiennes played Voldemort in harry potter it kinda made sense :v:
reading his quotes in this article he sounds like he's trying really hard
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;33024831]For some reason I read Twitter as Twilight. Knowing Ralph Fiennes played Voldemort in harry potter it kinda made sense :v:[/QUOTE] Oh fucking god damn it. Now I'm reading all of his quotes in his Voldemort voice.
[QUOTE=Paramud;33025581]Oh fucking god damn it. Now I'm reading all of his quotes in his Voldemort voice.[/QUOTE] And he suddenly lacks a nose in every picture of him.
His erosion is everybody else's evolution. Languages change all the time, it's why we go to lengths to choose dead ones for terms we want to stay consistent.
He's just saying this hipster trend of "being/sounding incontinent is cool" is ruining the purity of the language and it just makes it look and sound less intelligent.
[QUOTE=Stick it in her pooper;33029497]He's just saying this hipster trend of "being/sounding incontinent is cool" is ruining the purity of the language and it just makes it look and sound less intelligent.[/QUOTE]It's anything but hipster.
what does this have to do with hipsters!?
To be honest I'd more picture hipsters talking the same way Fiennes does than in a texting style.
[QUOTE=thisispain;33029603]what does this have to do with hipsters!?[/QUOTE] go ahead and change the word in my post from hipster to "retard" -- but really, you're missing the point. East european hipsters tend to type just as bad as any group -- even here they're borrowing English words in their Estonian language when they type, shortening the words into these made-up-for-texting abbreviations like they're actually in the dictionary
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;33029656]To be honest I'd more picture hipsters talking the same way Fiennes does than in a texting style.[/QUOTE] hipsters in france or in america? [editline]29th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Stick it in her pooper;33029691]go ahead and change the word in my post from hipster to "retard" -- but really, you're missing the point.[/QUOTE] there's no point. twitter isn't the driving force for language in literature. you think back 200 years ago when people were less educated they all spoke english eloquently?
Yeah it's definitely not twitter that's primarily causing it. I mean, street inspired rap music is playing a role (rappers don't have perfect english, everyone wants to talk like them now for some reason etc.), texting is playing a role, xbox messaging/instant messaging plays a role -- and social networking is just there, and people type the same way on all platforms from what I've noticed. Go on any hispanic girl's profile and you'll come out the other end with a lower IQ. i.e. "0mq CaN u b3liev3 WaT haqqend 2day @ skool????"
I learned english from the non-simple english wikipedia when I was 9, how am I doing?
For this to make sense you'd have to assume that 99% of the world's population frequently uses twitter. Which is bullshit.
[QUOTE=uitham;33029834]I learned english from the non-simple english wikipedia when I was 9, how am I doing?[/QUOTE] Pretty good, actually. You can learn an awful lot of things from Wikipedia.
[QUOTE=thisispain;33029701]hipsters in france or in america?[/QUOTE] As far as I know France doesn't have English as a national language so you can take an educated guess.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;33029927][I]Swag[/I][/QUOTE] I don't even know what "swag" means other than some nonsense term spammed around for the sake of being spammed around.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;33029999]Urban Dictionary: I don't know who started it. All I know is I want them dead.[/QUOTE] Thinking back I haven't really heard any use of the term applied to that definition. I believe my definition stands firmer.
I blame Facebook. Example statuses: [quote]Ppl qon cheat, &Mak mistakes We're put on diz Earth To find our fate I thank God Evry tym I wake Bcuz he qav enouqh strenqh To c anotha day[/quote] [quote]Jst woke up 4 dha 2nd tym,so im bout tew qet up & qet me sumthanq tew eat #Hmu doe[/quote]
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;33029999] I don't know who started it.[/QUOTE] Actually it was first used in the Merriam Webster dictionary to denote a curious movement in someone's walking, as in "There was a slight swagger in his step". Moaryouknow.jpg
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;33029927][I]Swag[/I] (I swear I want to punch a small child every time I hear someone say that. Some of these 'words' sound so made up it isn't even funny; it's retarded)[/QUOTE] Flogging Molly used 'Swagger' way before the hip hop artists, now it's just a term abused by people who think they're black. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEr2xI7rP-4[/media]
Jesus, Ralph looks like a hobo in that picture. Shave that thing off your face.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY[/media]
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;33030055]I'm thinking that too. You have the people who know what it means and then you have the idiots who hear it and start shouting it constantly thinking they're cool or something...[/QUOTE] fuck steve harvey [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0R0BlISqro[/media] [editline]29th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Ninja Duck;33030315]Flogging Molly used 'Swagger' way before the hip hop artists[/QUOTE] uhm no definitely not
[QUOTE=Earthen;33031989][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY[/media][/QUOTE] Isn't it, dare I say, ironic, that he mentions how distressing it is that people find little pleasure in words but rather in visual entertainment, and at the same time this is a kinetic typography?
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