Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for 'eroding' language
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Posted as a link because the picture is huge.
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[QUOTE=Earthen;33031989][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY[/media][/QUOTE]One of my odd pet peeves is people adding really generic motion typography to things that don't necessarily need it. It really doesn't add anything to the experience besides making you dizzy.
These, on the other hand, or motion typography done right:
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I blame texting, and the fact that modern conversation is just a series of references to obscure youtube videos.
I do find that my language and expressions are near alien to forgieners though, I had to explain to a Saudi what "Shit Tier" and "wingwhams" where. I'm supprised how much slang I use sometimes, makes translating minutes I take from meetings difficult.
[QUOTE=Contag;33021375]English was to Latin and french what african american english/ebonics is to English today.[/QUOTE]
Only with a vocabulary mainly made of Germanic words. Oh, and with different grammar, and a much less synthetic structure.
tis gy si a cnt
i txt hw i wnat, ROFLMAO
It's definitely texting. Back before phones had full keyboards, typing out full words was a pain in the ass, so it taught people to abbreviate as much as possible. And it stuck around because it was "cool"/people stayed lazy.
Everyone knows that the wrote language and the spoken language are two different worlds.
No matter if you write "please", "plz" or "plox", if they all mean the word spoken as /'pli:z/.
A language is changing when the spoken words are changing.
I thank facepunch for perfecting my language due to the smartness system back in the day, English is not my first language so it's harder for us eurofags so go easy on the newbs guys!
I want to punch a line of kittens and babies every time I read that textspeak shit
so fucking annoying
I also know a guy who could not be entered for his English GCSE because he was [I]completely unable to spell anything right[/I].
[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;33041917]Only with a vocabulary mainly made of Germanic words. Oh, and with different grammar, and a much less synthetic structure.[/QUOTE]
The english vocabulary is predominantly latin.
Edit:
Disagree all you want, just google it.
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