Thursday, August 23, 2007

new language

with technology advancing so too is the new range of vocabulary to explain it. It is also creating a new language either from out of the air or from original sources.
Much like how the english language has its history and rules from the ancient languages of Latin and Greek. For example the word "email" derived from the word mail'.
Or just composing a new word such as "blog" to explain this right here.
And there are also many "computer jargon" dictionaries formulated to make sense of this new language.

It could be classed as slang or simply new media jargon' if in denial. But there is no doubting the effect texting has had on language. I have no real evidence to back it up but using my own experience is that even when I am writing essays I will be dumbfounded on how to spell the most simplest, common word and can only think of its equivalent spelling in text language.
Perhaps it is similar to the example used in the lecture about the "breakbeat" how it was in its first form and then moulded or "cut up-sampled" to produce a different music genre sound from the same beat.
With this new language it is just a follow on from what english did before hand. The benefit tho from this new technology language is that it is still universal.

1 Comments:

Blogger Polifonix said...

"Blog" isn't entirely original, it came from the joining of "web" and "log" into "weblog" and now just "blog".

August 24, 2007 at 11:45 AM  

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