Response
Response
The article “twerking,selfie and unlike young people don’t speak like that I should know.” Written by Isabelle Kerr is written about how she hates the use of slang especially theses new words which had been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
I had disagreed with her views on slang “These are in fact the pitiful emblems of the current young generations contributions to language.” Her views on slang is that young people are heavily influencing the English language in a bad way,such as contributing words like twerking which she describes as “linguistic calamities.” Many people’s view on slang is negative they see slang as vulgar,sloppy and repetitive. I see slang as neither good or bad I simply regard slang as a matter of “progress”
Slang is short lived and inconsistent it’s always changing but all new words started of as slang. William Shakespeare is a great example of a playwright who had invented over 1700 word, words like accommodation, aerial, countless, critical and many many more. For such reason I see slang as progression of the English language, albeit I may loath using slang I genuinely do think slang such as unlike,twerking and selfie as actually words which formed from slang as new words like with William Shakespeare who invented the many words that we use today for such reason I disagree with her next remark ” Regardless, the future of the English language looks bleak.”
The authors use of slang in first paragraph “I’m so gonna unlike that selfie of her twerking Srsly though, these words make me wanna vom.” She uses slang in this paragraph to make a point or a joke about how slang sounds silly she says this in a somewhat sarcastic manner ” I,for one can only hope my generation is not remembered for being responsible for removing all the vowels responsible from seriously.” Since many of words from were shorten in her first paragraph which was used to show how ridiculous slang is the author has clearly disapproves of the use of slang she has made an effective point to show her readers how inappropriate slang sounds.
The author says in her last paragraph. “Shakespeare will be turning in his grave.” She is implying that Shakespeare will be ashamed of what has become of the English language so he will facing away in shame this is what is implied. However I disagree with this point for Shakespeare as a playwright had invented words which made his plays more expressive using new words to convey his character thoughts he used this in his plays to make it better not for the worse, he was practically the dictator of slang which undermines the point she has made.
“I actually had to Google this word.” When writing for the reason against slang one would think not to use slang to debate about slang but here she used the noun Google has a verb “to Google” Since Google is not an officially a verb it would be regarded as slang with the derived from the meaning to search in this context.
In conclusion I disagree with this article that slang are words that should not be accepted in society and that “the future of the English language looks bleak.”
I know that the future of the English language would be better for Shakespeare had contributed many words to English and now with the digital of age of texting and communicating a whole society can contribute to the progression of the English language.