Response 2 John Humphrys Article

A Decade ago a journalist named John Humphrys wrote an article about language and how it has developed due to its surrounding. Language is different in each generation, generation meaning people that were born in the same time. My father is born in the early 70’s and I’m born in the late 90’s therefore we are in different generations this poses a problem because technology makes us talk in different ways and is sometimes hard to understand .

This is John humphrys point , but it’s not that language is changing , its evolving to the generation which is current . John Humphrys is from the 40’s an era that was at a technological disadvantage, technology was just introduced people were not used to it .

As the years went by language changed with technology , the first IPhone was invented in 2007 this is when you could see a change in the way people was speaking and also writing . The funny thing is John was born in a time were  words could move and army towards or away from conflict , compare it to today where social media is how people fight these days . Words are one of the most powerful things in the world , they can be used as a solution or can be a cause of a problem . I think language evolving is good aslong as the meanings stay the same . For example in slang terms calling someone a ” Pagan ” is a form of insult but in a normal context it is a person holding  religious beliefs , such things as this need to be sorted out because it will create confusion. The problem with changing words  is that the generation before will not understand but the new generation will meaning the two will loose communication because the will not understand each other. This effects education , students can talk some much but are not able to apply it in a written form this is also the other way round meaning either the teaching is bad of the students surroundings are not helping them to develop there clarity and vocabulary.

Computers have an automatic spell check now , which can be a problem because there are certain words that are not officially in the dictionary so there are corrected but the problem is they are words that are commonly used by the new generation for example accordionated , meaning being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time . This is not a word which is know to me and would sound confusing .

I don’t know this word because it is not accept as one but doe that make it a word or not ? , John Humphrys point is that language is different and there is nothing body can do because we are all different and do not take in knowledge and the same pace . I agree that language is changing and the youth are controlling it socially but my one question that I have , is that wrong ? . I don’t understand spainsih doenst mean it’s ridiculous , either I learn and communicate with those that speak the dialect or I don’t communicate it is simple to see that the only reason John Humprys wrote his article is because he doesn’t understand what youth people say .

The English language will not change because of text messages being abbreviated , education teaches you standard English so you can read , write and , speak so aslong as education is provided language will not change only evolve. You sometimes hear people complaining about the use of the term “language evolution” when what people really mean is historical linguistics, language change or the cultural evolution of language. This is why the Urban dictionary was created to everyone can be understood and not have to conform to the same things.