The deterioration of our generations vocabulary is becoming a problem that is often brought up into today's society. With the world relying on smart technology such as phones and computers, many people are shortening and abbreviating terms in language for hopes of communicating faster and more efficiently.
There are several different ways of viewing this modern-day movement as either in a good light or bad.
In today's busy world this can be seen as a constructive way of communication, faster, gets the point across for more efficiency, which is the main reason why people choose to use this modern lingo. Another reason why I believe that this is beneficial is that throughout history, everything in existence has to adapt to survive, in order to not get "wiped out". In this case, language is evolving into a different state. Many people do not speak this way, nor write this way other than in casual text messages or in social media sites. If you take a moment and look back at the diction of Shakespeare, today you almost need a translation or a summary to determine it's value and meaning, well in this light, one should heed that all languages constantly evolve with the changing world and if controlled to smart gadgets such as personal computers and cellular devices, we can curb the transition and still hold the true roots of our language.
Instead in the novel 1984, the party is constantly and deliberately destroying words in order to shorten vocabulary terms that are deemed unfit for the party, in turn forcing society into only the feelings they know how to express, anger towards enemies, productivity for the state and above all, extreme loyalty to the party and it's interests.
On the other side of the debate lies the greater number of people who believe that technology leads to the imminent destruction of social interaction and our diction that is understood today, and is a very well proved concept. With the continuation of "text language" throughout the world and it's phones we continue to convert more and more words into the language, eventually encompassing the whole language itself and the destruction of language and in turn, civilization itself.
There is also the problem of loss of emotion while reading and writing messages sent from screen to screen, which constantly affects a wide range of people all over the world. A friend could be drastically offended at a mere joke, while a manager could mess up an international order by a simple misunderstanding.
The article indicated in the link described that the increase in technological advances not only will deteriorate language, but also will destroy the social life of society, in this argument, clearly focused around teens. With our preferred choice of social interaction through a screen such as a phone, or a social media website like Facebook. This is what I believe we have to worry about, a loss of interaction and emotion at the same time, but in face life itself depends on social interaction, the results could be catastrophic if extreme severity was met.
As a result, we the people of civilized society must heed these views as likely possibilities and take the needed precautions seriously. Social events to be encouraged and the amount of texting and use of social media sites controlled, that way we do not need to worry about any of these risks affecting our language and diction in how it is expressed today, and just as a conservation team saves a river, we have to apply the same amount of precision and realistic goals that can deter the likely deterioration of language itself.
