Assignment #5

I think the English language is in a way being lost. Is it because of text messaging? I think it has more to do with evolution. How people are just changing as well as our surroundings. A while ago I remember hearing about how we only know about 2000 words, and now that we only use 800. It depends on the person as well, as there are still many people that do not take short cuts when talking or texting. One of the main reasons for me is that there is so much a person has to do in a day now. If there is a way you could make something easier or faster then why not. I don’t think we should put blame on text messaging. Text messaging in my opinion is very useful. If you have a quick question or need to remind people of something you can and it’s easy. However there are negatives. On the news, were a couple that texted each other the whole day. They live in the same house, but would only talk face to face for about five minutes a day. The rest they would text. I think that in a way it does push people away from each other. There are a lot of miss interpretations and it’s hard to say something sarcastic. Sometimes you can’t really say what you want to. I do think that texting has some relations to the English language getting worse. However Language is meant for communicating with one, another and as long as that’s happening I don’t think it’s  a big deal as long as people know how to properly speak and write, and are just using socially its fine.