BBC NEWS | UK | Txt means goodbye to 'hello'
Tracy Blacher, MSN marketing director, said: "What is interesting is the speed that language is being modified by the adoption of new technology."
Should we worry? Should we fret? Is a Clockwork Orange around the corner?
I adore language especially those rarely used words in the English language. While txt abounds we lose some of that subtlety, some of the complexity, the richness of the communication. To describe a full back's run into the line, jinking to a try as 'coruscating' (Stuart Barnes commentating on Sky Sports on Iain Balshaw) reminds me just how much this would cost us.
Maybe technology around the corner will counteract this trend. I hope so.
Posted by Paul Goodison at August 5, 2003 12:57 PM | TrackBack