Tech Language: gr8 or h8?
Language is constantly evolving, and even more so with the progression of modern technology, we are being forced to make new words as fast as lightning, and it’s sometimes difficult to keep track of such things. For example, we are presented with words like ‘selfies’ which has weaved itself into the Oxford English Dictionary. Of course this is a controversial subject, as there are people who are more progressive and in favour of language adapting, and those that are extremely against the idea of language developing. Text speak is a notable feature/example of how language has been developing over time, as we’ve had to abbreviate our words. With acronyms like ‘LOL’ and ‘ROFL’ to represent laughter, or initialisms like ‘OMG’ and ‘WTF’ for exclamations (though these are not used as religiously anymore) we’ve been shortening everything down for efficiency. We only used text speak because we had to, it would be far too problematic when texting to try and type out entire words when such sim...
