Is Twitter killing the English language?
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- Welcome!!! The forum officially begins at 12pm EST, but please feel free to join the conversation at any time. The in-house discussion is moderated by Mike Ridley, Chief Librarian and CIO at University of Guelph. The panel includes Aimee Morrison, Susan Brown, Peter Martyn and Stuart Robertson.
- We are going to begin in 15 minutes. What do you t think?
Click on Make a comment to join the conversation. - I think social media is changing the English language and how we use but not killing it. We may not like the evolution but evolution is what languages do.
- Having not used this - am I watching the panel or just the online participants?
- I think we're so inundated with information these days that we've lost the ability to communicate effectively.
- You are mostly watching the online participants. Some of us will try and post the comments of the panel so you can follow along with them.
- are some of you "watchers" there to share this dialogue?
- i twitter & facebook friends that i'd lose site of otherwise. what's the problem/
- has the forum statred? what's the panel saying?
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- panel is about to start Aimee Morrison, Assistant Professor, School of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo; (AA)
- Susan Brown, Associate Professor, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph; (SB)
- Peter Martyn, Former Deputy Foreign Editor at the Toronto Star and current Faculty in the School of Media Studies and Information Technology, Humber College and University of Guelph-Humber; (PM)
- Stuart Robertson, University of Guelph Web Manager and Faculty in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Guelph-Humber.
- Stuart would be (SR)
- @mridley moderating Is Twitter killing the English language?
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- Twitter is about a conversation, about language.
- for sure spelling and grammar have suffered as a result og Twitter, Facebook and its ilk.
- suffered? how about "evolved"?
- SR: my take on this topic is that the interface and the immediacy can have an impact on the time and effort we take
- how can "c u latr" be an evolution?
- SR: quality depends on the author
- SB: the possessive apostrophe has been dying long before Twitter
- SB: english is always changing
- Is it possible to live/exist and function in both worlds. My teens seem to be able to switch gears to the environment's expectations
- changing is one thing - declining is another.
- SB: people are writing more due to social media, and studies show that people's writing improves b/c of the amount you write
- SB: academic writing is a different type of writing, and takes training
- I'd be interested to know how this has changed the quality of student's writing.
- AA: the technology and the ppl respond to each other according to what the technology allows them to do
- AA: there's a lot of illiterate nonsense in the world
- I don't think this can be compared with the introduction of the typewriter or the printing press - this has altered the way people think.
- PM: Twitter is the end of the english language! the sky is falling! cats can't spell!
- its whatever your used to
- I'm interested to hear why Barrie2 believes it has altered the way people think...
- The medium is the message...
- PM: the medium is the message. the content makes or breaks the tweet.
- twitter is dumb
- @mridley: why are people so concerned about the Twitter threat?
- Why are people upset about these technologies? Are they a threat?
- AA: panic is coming from the mainstream media.
- using nothing but acronyms and short forms changes how the brain is wired - you're no longer able to develop properly structured arguments.
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