(February 16, 2016 at 8:04 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(February 16, 2016 at 7:53 pm)abaris Wrote: Because, if speech gets more primitive, people follow suit. It's the highway to resort to grunts again, with all the meaning they carry. Now, that's not language, that's an abomination.
But, abaris, you're exagerating. The fact is, these are adjustments made exclusively because of and for web interactions, something we didn't have in the past. As our mediums change, so do our modes of expression. Hash-tags are needed in some environments for efficiency. Emojis help sometimes convey emotions where you couldn't otherwise. An author who includes any emojis and hashtags in his book is not using them properly. They are for conversations taking place in real time between two or more people via the internet.
I tend to agree. Where I really hate to see "textspeak" and emojis is in forms of communication other than text, IM, etc. I personally take the time to spell words out correctly when I text. Every time I see my 74 year old mother text something with 'ur' in it, I want to kick puppies though.
